Shakespeare as inventor of new words

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Fri Apr 8 14:11:38 UTC 2011


Here we go again:  Yahoo News posts the revelation that Shakespeare, when he couldn't think of a word, just make one up.  Specifically 1,600 words.  As shown in the OED.

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=24811671

--Charlie

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