Posted on 04/28/2008 11:35:28 AM PDT by Borges
Nouns:
accused addiction alligator amazement anchovies assassination backing bandit bedroom bump buzzers courtship critic dauntless dawn design dickens discontent embrace employer engagements excitements exposure eyeball fixture futurity glow gust hint immediacy investments kickshaws leapfrog luggage manager mimic misgiving mountaineer ode outbreak pageantry pedant perusal questioning reinforcement retirement roadway rumination savagery scuffles shudders switch tardiness transcendence urging watchdog wormhole zany
Verbs:
besmirch bet blanket cake cater champion compromise cow denote deracinate dialogue dislocate divest drug dwindle elbow enmesh film forward gossip grovel hobnob humour hurry impedes jet jig label lapse lower misquote negotiate numb pander partner petition puke rant reword secure submerge swagger torture unclog
Adjectives:
aerial auspicious baseless beached bloodstained blushing circumstantial consanguineous deafening disgraceful domineering enrapt epileptic equivocal eventful fashionable foregone frugal generous gloomy gnarled hush inaudible invulnerable jaded juiced lackluster laughable lonely lustrous madcap majestic marketable monumental nervy noiseless oscene olympian premeditated promethean quarrelsome radiance rancorous reclusive remorseless rival sacrificial sanctimonious softhearted splitting stealthy traditional tranquil unmitigated unreal varied vaulting viewless widowed worthless yelping
Adverbs:
importantly instinctively obsequiously threateningly tightly trippingly unaware
That’s a pretty good neological record.
No doubt. Can’t imagine he’d be very popular if his audiences didn’t understand his language.
from "Ode to a Clinton"
*Taken from: As You Like It
LOL!
ping
No matter how good one may think the Bard is/was, I doubt that he himself “coined” all of these words. Some, perhaps, but I suspect that most were either in use or coming into use during his lifetime.
For instance, one word- ruminate- has an origin listed as
1525–35, which is a bit before when Will was living— between 1565 and 1616. This is only one that I found, while some others seem to have their origin of sometime during his active, writing lifetime. This is not an exhaustive search of the etymology of each listed word, just a very quick perusal of the list.
But I truly don’t think that he “coined” all these words. He may have been a great writer of the time, but I doubt he had that great an extent of knowledge of all the foreign languages that would be required, which the roots of most of the listed words were taken from.
This does nothing to denigrate his literary works, but to attribute the *creation* of such a list of words to him would not only be amazing, but probably fanciful.
:’)
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"Every inch a king" would just be suggestive if he'd written it today. :') Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
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