Words and Phrases We Owe to William Shakespeare
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Words and Phrases We Owe to William Shakespeare
The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original.