While Shakespeare might not have been the creator of all the different words he's credited with, he was the first one to write them down and made them stick in our everyday language. You can learn even more about Shakespearean words by trying a Shakespeare translator.
You can also peruse his biography. All rights reserved. If you go look up the Oxford English Dictionary definitions for these words, they do indeed attribute a number of these words to Shakespeare. So, why does Shakespeare have so many words attributed to him that may or may not have originated with him? When the first Oxford English Dictionary came out , the compilation was essentially done by hand which, of course, meant that the pool they were drawing early citations from was necessarily smaller.
How could you tickle the ears of the groundlings that way? However, whether he invented the words or not, it doesn't really matter, says scholar James Shapiro. Shapiro thinks the very climate of Elizabethan London gave birth to all of this inventiveness in language. Of course, history has remembered many of the unusual neologisms that achieved popularity during that time.
In order to answer the question—How many words did Shakespeare invent? Should we count words invented and then forgotten? The Guardian quotes Shakespeare lecturer Dr.
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