FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare is credited with the invention or introduction of over 1, 700 words that are still used in English today. William Shakespeare used more than 20, 000 words in his plays and poems, and his works provide the first recorded use of over 1, 700 words in the English language.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare has also been credited with inventing quite a few words and phrases-but perhaps not as many as you think. There are 1, 700 words attributed to Shakespeare, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Detailed explanation-3: -The early modern English language was less than 100 years old in 1590 when Shakespeare was writing. No dictionaries had yet been written and most documents were still written in Latin. He contributed 1, 700 words to the English language because he was the first author to write them down.
Detailed explanation-4: -How many words did Shakespeare write? According to Marvin Spevack’s concordances, Shakespeare’s complete works consist of 884, 647 words and 118, 406 lines.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.