Advertising, worthless, marketable – thank Shakespeare

A great list of Words Shakespeare Invented. Apparently 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.

Some more examples: label, lackluster, deafening and unreal.


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