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July 15, 2020
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July 18, 2020
Did Shakespeare invent this word or did it exist already?
DISCLAIMER: These are words claimed to be invented by Shakespeare so it is not necessarily true but fun to imagine he did.
It turns out that Shakespeare’s genius was not in coining new words — it was in hearing new words and writing them down before they became widespread, and in wringing new meaning out of old, worn-out words: turning "elbow" into a verb and "where" into a noun. He didn’t invent the words, but he knew how to use them better than anyone. - Vox.com
