SHAKESPEARE’S INVENTED WORDS.

SHAKESPEARE’S INVENTED WORDS. The discussion of Sarah Palin’s use of the new word “refudiate” led to this informative article by Professor Matthew Biberman about Shakespeare’s neologisms. (link via realclearpolitics). (My position on the controversy is that I am in favor of new words). Professor Biberman makes the valuable statistical point that Shakespeare gets credit for coining a lot of new words simply because the creators of the Oxford English Dictionary, in creating its history of word usage, relied on Shakespeare’s works as an archive.

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3 Responses to SHAKESPEARE’S INVENTED WORDS.

  1. Dick Weisfelder says:

    A new word I liked seems fairly unique to Tobago. It is “liming” meaning hanging out – just enjoying life – possibly originally linked to just sitting in the shade under a lime tree.

  2. phil schaefer says:

    What a useful word. And a life goal for us.

  3. Mary Jane Schaefer says:

    Or, in the immortal words of George Washington, “I cannot tell a lime.”

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