Much Ado About...Something?

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February 7, 2015

 

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In The Story of English, Bernard Levin writes that "if [the reader] cannot understand my argument, and [declares] ?It's Greek to me', you are quoting Shakespeare" (McCrum, Cran, MacNeil 99). Levin is simply reminding the reader that much of common English speech can be traced back to idioms used in Shakespeare's writing...
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Levin is simply reminding the reader that much of common English speech can be traced back to idioms used in Shakespeare's writing. Shakespeare even took the liberty to invent words of his own, supposedly inventing over one thousand commonly used words. Shakespeare was able to create words in multiple ways, including changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and coming up with words that were completely original (pathguy...
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