He invented about 3000 words which are in the oxford dictionary
How Many Words Did Shakespeare Invent?
He has been conservatively assessed as having 'invented' some 2000 words, or, roughly, one in every ten, in his plays, to the English language.
At the age of nine, he was introduced to Latin in school by his Oxford tutor Simon Hunt, who, convinced Mary Arden, Shakespeare's mother, to buy him a 'crib'.
She bought him Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. A book which never left his side all through his life.
In London, he was influenced by the 'University Wits', graduates from Oxford and Cambridge, who, as well as writing plays and poems, amused themselves by 'inventing' words with which to enhance their plays, from the Latin, a knack which Shakespeare easily managed himself, much to our benefit.
Academe. Advertising, cater, circumstantial, cold-blooded, courtship, drug, etc, all found employment in his work, drug, for instance, is found in 'Romeo and Juliet'.
As well as words, there are the many expressions and phrases invented by him,
A tower of strength. One fell swoop. Sorry sight. Laughing stock. Short shrift. Well- behaved, (again Romeo and Juliet). And What the Dickens!
At the age of nine, he was introduced to Latin in school by his Oxford tutor Simon Hunt, who, convinced Mary Arden, Shakespeare's mother, to buy him a 'crib'.
She bought him Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. A book which never left his side all through his life.
In London, he was influenced by the 'University Wits', graduates from Oxford and Cambridge, who, as well as writing plays and poems, amused themselves by 'inventing' words with which to enhance their plays, from the Latin, a knack which Shakespeare easily managed himself, much to our benefit.
Academe. Advertising, cater, circumstantial, cold-blooded, courtship, drug, etc, all found employment in his work, drug, for instance, is found in 'Romeo and Juliet'.
As well as words, there are the many expressions and phrases invented by him,
A tower of strength. One fell swoop. Sorry sight. Laughing stock. Short shrift. Well- behaved, (again Romeo and Juliet). And What the Dickens!
1600
3000
Over 3,000
In writing his version of Hamlet, Shakespeare "invented" 600 words, 400 of which he was never to use again. He also devised 67 examples of "Hendyasis", a division of English grammar where two simple nouns are divided by the ampersand to form a phrase, which, by the interchange of the nouns, means the same. (Law and Order), what is Law? Order. What is Order? Law. " Angels and ministers of grace......."
2,000-5,000.. Stupid people... Jk
8000 words
Over 9000
15,000,000
10