I had a graduate course in Elizabethan Literature from Samuel Schoenbaum (sp.?) a noted scholar from NYC.
He kept referring to the explosion of language in the Elizabethan Era and the willingness of writers to create "ingorn" terms. Eventually we figured out he meant i-n-k-h-o-r-n.
I don't find much literal truth in the Bible, but the story of the Tower of Babel has great symbolic appeal.
