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Words from WS!

Postby Perry Lassiter » Mon Aug 05, 2013 3:22 pm

You guys seen this yet? Words WS gave to the language?

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biogr ... ented.html
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Re: Words from WS!

Postby Slava » Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:04 pm

Here's another site with phrases from Shakespeare:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phra ... peare.html
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Re: Words from WS!

Postby Philip Hudson » Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:50 pm

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.
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Re: Words from WS!

Postby Slava » Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:45 pm

Another point is that many of them have changed meaning over the centuries.
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