Did you know there are 1,700+ words invented by Shakespeare used in his plays and poems?
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says he did this “often by combining words, changing nouns into verbs, adding prefixes or suffixes, and so on.”
Perhaps even more interesting is although these words and phrases were invented in the 16th century, many of them are still in use today!
Keep reading as we explore 50 of our favorite phrases and words invented by Shakespeare and share a bit of the story behind them where we can.
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
He was a genius! I will take him as a role model, so i have not to learn so much new words. Lol xx Michael
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This is amazing. What a wordsmith! I guess now if someone asks me the origin of a word, I can reply, “Probably Shakespeare!”
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I have a feeling some of these words as used by Shakespeare are based on words that already existed. He may have turned nouns into verbs and vice versa, thus creating new words. “Elbow” as a noun was already there; maybe Bill made it into a verb? And “assassin” is derived from Arabic via Italian. Shakespeare may have tweaked that into the thing done by assassins. Etc.
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