Fun fact time!
Shakespeare invented half of the words he used! So... before Shakespeare the words 'worthless', 'grovel' and 'assassinate' didn't exist (along with many others!)

Intriguing....

Sunday, 17 November 2013

The influence of Shakespeare. . .

Evening all,

I grew to really dislike studying Shakespeare during my school days in Edinburgh. Perhaps hate... I think we studied 5 or 6 plays in senior school, making it one play per year. That's one too many if you ask me. However, the impact of this famous playwright on the English language is quite incredible! This is a fact I am only starting to learn now. I have added a link sent to me by my IELTS student Antonio which gives some good detail about the origins of Shakespearean words and the various plays they come from. 


As the website tells us: 

"...He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together..."


That is the question!

Mini dictionary:-

- I really dislike: I really don't like
- To hate (verb): detestare
- Impact (noun): impatto, effetto
- Playwright (noun): A person who writes plays
- Origins (noun): origini


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