Today
is the 449th birthday of not only the greatest playwright who ever lived, but
also the greatest poet. William Shakespeare is the most accomplished English writer of all
time, by far the world’s most produced dramatist, and the finest wordsmith to
ever pen a word in the English language.
He invented more words than most people even know. There are at least 1,500 different words and phrases that don't appear anywhere prior to the Bard of Avon putting them on paper. When he got stuck trying to think up a word, the man just made his own!
The following words
and phrases were first coined by William Shakespeare:
WORDS
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PHRASES
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amazement
apostrophe
assassination
bloody
consanguineous
courtship
critic
domineering
fashionable
freezing
generous
gloomy
laughable
lonely
obscene
pious
quarrelsome
suspicious
well-bred
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A dish fit for the
gods (Julius Caesar)
All our yesterdays (Macbeth)
All's
well that ends well (title)
As
merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing)
In a
better world than this (As You Like It)
Break
the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)
Brevity
is the soul of wit (Hamlet)
For
goodness' sake (Henry VIII)
Jealousy
is the green-eyed monster (Othello)
It was
Greek to me (Julius Caesar)
Make a
virtue of necessity (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Much
Ado About Nothing (title)
Neither
rhyme nor reason (As You Like It)
A sorry sight (Macbeth)
Stony
hearted (I Henry IV)
Spotless reputation (Richard
II)
The
world's my oyster (Merry Wives of Windsor)
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