Category: Literature
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
We have always known of things to be real, but until Shakespeare made it negative we had no way of expressing the, "unreal"
Shudder had been used as a verb, but he made it acceptable as a noun in Timon of Athens.
This is a compound word invented by Shakespeare and seen in King John and Henry V.
While new-fangled may seem like a modern word, it was actually first used by Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost and As You Like It.
Alligator was a word in other languages, but Shakespeare took it and made it his own by changing the spelling and bringing it to English.
Where would tabloids be without addictions? Addiction was first used by Shakespeare in Henry V and Othello.