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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Fritz Goerling</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=p1 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"
align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">a man of fire-new
words<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=p2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"
align=center><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Celebrating the Bards 450th
birthday<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=p2 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">by Richard
Lederer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On April 23, we will celebrate the <I>450th </I>birthday
of the greatest word-maker who ever trod the earthly stage. Of the 20,138
basewords that Shakespeare employs in his plays, sonnets, and other poems, his
is the first known use of over 1,700 of them! The most verbally innovative of
our authors, Shakespeare made up more than 8.5<I> </I>percent of his written
vocabulary. Reading his works is like witnessing the birth of modern
English.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Among his verbal inventions arc: <I>auspicious, bedroom,
bump, dishearten, dwindle, hurry, lapse, lonely, majestic, road, sneak, </I>and
<I>useless. </I>So great is his influence on his native tongue that we find it
hard to imagine a time when these words did not exist:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Oscar Wilde once quipped, Now we sit through
Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Unrivaled in so many other
ways in matters verbal, Shakespeare is unequaled as a
phrasemaker.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A student who attended a performance of Hamlet came
away complaining that the play was nothing more than a bunch of clichés. The
reason for this common reaction is that so many of the memorable expressions in
Hamlet have become proverbial. In that one play alone were born: <I>brevity is
the soul of wit; theres the rub; to thine own self be true; it smells to
heaven; the very witching time of night; the primrose path; though this be
madness, yet there is method in it; dog will have his day; the apparel oft
proclaims the man; neither a borrower nor a lender be; frailty, thy name is
woman; something is rotten in the state of Denmark; more honored in the breach
than the observance; hoist with his own petard; the lady doth protest too much;
to be or not to be; sweets for the sweet; the be-all and end-all; to the manner
born, </I>and, <I>more in sorrow than in anger.<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cudgel your brain, and you can append a sample of
everyday, idiomatic phrases from other Shakespearean plays: if you knit your
brow and wish that this disquisition would vanish into thin air because it is
Greek to you, you are quoting William Shakespeare in all his infinite variety.
If you point the finger at strange bedfellows and blinking -idiots, you are
converting Shakespeares coinages into currency. If you have seen better days in
your salad days, when you wore your heart on your sleeve, you are, whether you
know it or not, going from Bard to verse.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If you break the ice with one fell swoop, if you never
stand on ceremonies, if you play it fast and loose until the crack of doom, if
you paint the lily, if you hope for a plague on both houses, if you are more
sinned against than sinning because you have all been eaten out of house and
home by your own flesh and blood (the most unkindest cut of all), if you havent
slept a wink and are breathing your last because youre in a pickle, if you
carry within you the milk of human kindness and a heart of gold (even though you
know that all that glisters is not gold), if you laugh yourself into stitches at
too much of a good thing, if you make a virtue of necessity, if you know that
the course of true love never did run smooth, and if you wont budge an
inchwhy, if the truth be told and the truth will out, what the dickens, in a
word, right on!, be that as it may, the game is up you are, as luck would have
it, standing on that tower of strength of phrasemakers, William
Shakespeare.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The etymologist Ernest Weekley said of Shakespeare, His
contribution to our phraseology is ten times greater than that of any writer to
any language in the history of the world. The essayist and novelist Walter
Pater exclaimed, What a garden of words! In Sonnet CXVI, the Bard himself
wrote, If this be error and upon me proved,/I never writ, nor no man ever
loved. If Shakespeare had not lived and written with such a loving ear for the
music of our language, our English tongue would be immeasurably the poorer. No
day goes by that we do not speak and hear and read and write his
legacy.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(Reprinted from </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Mensa Bulletin, <I>April/May 2014, ed. Roger
Brooks)<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
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