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Words from WS!

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 3:22 pm
by Perry Lassiter
You guys seen this yet? Words WS gave to the language?

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biogr ... ented.html

Re: Words from WS!

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:04 pm
by Slava
Here's another site with phrases from Shakespeare:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phra ... peare.html

Re: Words from WS!

Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:50 pm
by Philip Hudson
WS is the Bard and this does not take from that, but it is not certain he coined all those words. He was the first person to write them that has been discovered.

Re: Words from WS!

Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:45 pm
by Slava
Another point is that many of them have changed meaning over the centuries.