ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare is credited with the invention or introduction of over 1, 700 words that are still used in English today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare was a very creative writer: he invented many new words and had a lasting influence on the English language. The plays contain more than 17, 000 individual words, and about ten per cent of those were entirely new words. Some of them were not adopted by other speakers of English, but many were.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most people are already aware of Shakespeare’s unbelievable invention of roughly 2000 words which were added to the dictionary; we feature here a few more word-inventing authors you might not know about: 1.

Detailed explanation-4: -accommodation. aerial. amazement. apostrophe. assassination. auspicious. baseless. bloody. bump. castigate. dishearten. dislocate. dwindle. eventful. exposure. fitful. frugal. generous. gloomy. gnarled. majestic. misplaced. monumental. multitudinous. obscene. palmy. perusal. pious. premeditated.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bandit. Henry VI, Part 2. 1594. Critic. Love’s Labour Lost. 1598. Dauntless. Henry VI, Part 3. 1616. Dwindle. Henry IV, Part 1. 1598. Elbow (as a verb) King Lear. 1608. Green-Eyed (to describe jealousy) The Merchant of Venice. 1600. Lackluster. As You Like It. 1616. Lonely. Coriolanus. 1616. More items •07-May-2019