Thought Bite - Play with words and Shakespeare -

Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in history. His plays have been translated into 50 languages. In the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations containing about 20,000 quotations, Shakespeare alone monopolises a staggering 60 pages (10 per cent). He coined 1,700 new words, in the English Language. It is not widely known (except to Shakespearean scholars) that he was the first person to have used words like accommodation, aerial, assassination, baseless, bedroom, castigate, courtship, dishearten, dislocate, exposure, eventful, generous, gnarled, hurry, impartial, indistinguishable, laughable, lapse, monumental, multitudinous, obscene, pedant, perusal, radiance, reliance, sanctimonious, seamy, and useless. Many of the phrases and expressions coined by him are now in daily use. Thus if you were to say ‘brevity is the soul of wit’, ‘there’s the rub’, ‘the apparel oft proclaims the man’, ‘neither a borrower or lender be’, ‘paint the lily’, ‘the milk of human kindness’, ‘the most unkindest cut of all’, ‘a heart of gold’, ‘all that glitters is not gold’, ‘laugh yourself into stitches’, ‘more sinned against than sinning’, ‘if music be the food of love’, ‘strange bedfellows’, ‘blinking idiots’, ‘break the ice with one fell swoop’, you are quoting Shakespeare.

The full article - https://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/in-many-words/article7067763.ece

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