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06-03-2009, 07:49 PM | #1 |
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Words Shakespeare Invented
In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare.
This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare accommodation aerial amazement apostrophe assassination auspicious baseless bloody bump castigate changeful clangor control (noun) countless courtship critic critical dexterously dishearten dislocate dwindle eventful exposure fitful frugal generous gloomy gnarled hurry impartial inauspicious indistinguishable invulnerable lapse laughable lonely majestic misplaced monumental multitudinous obscene palmy perusal pious premeditated radiance reliance road sanctimonious seamy sportive submerge suspicious |
06-05-2009, 12:11 AM | #2 |
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No shit. They probably thought that he was just some weird gay back then, but you see what happens when the hippies want something.
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