Friday 9 August 2013

Worthless


Aren't a fan of the word worthless? You have Shakespeare to thank for that one. He created at least 1700 new words  in the English language. Hurry, assassination and critic were a few of the others.

10 comments:

  1. ha. i love words and all their variety so i can appreciate...as long as you dont try to use them all in one conversation...ha

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  2. I wasn't aware of the fact that Shakespeare created "assassination". Thanks for the info. Good post.

    Greetings from London.

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  3. It's amazing! A one-man word machine! Never knew! Thanks for sharing HGW!

    Hank

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  4. First I knew, my created words don't take.

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  5. How funny that so many of his words stuck!

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  6. Boy times have change. Now we have the likes of Beyonce creating words like Bootylicious. We are definitely on a downward slope.

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  7. I had no knowledge of that. I have a good friend who would spend hours (If I had the time, but I don't) telling me that Francis Bacon is the writer of the works published under the name of Shakespeare.

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  8. Makes you wonder how one man could create that many words. I wonder if he ever let his mind relax and just enjoy life.

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