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You speak Shakespeare. In spite of his reputation among literature-averse students for flowery language, Shakespeare directly created a great deal of the English we use today. Not only is he recorded as the first user of more words than any other writer, he also made words up: we owe him eyeball, bloodstained, radiance, assassination and lackluster, to name but a few. And his phrases are so embedded in the language, chances are youve used some of them in the last week or so: if for example youve been in a pickle, seen better days, or caught a cold, or been a laughing stock, or had to break the ice, or said good riddance..
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:14:15 +0000

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