William Shakespeare and the English language

This video says about itself:

Shakespeare – The History of English (3/10)

1 July 2011

Frpm daily The Independent in Britain:

These are all the words that William Shakespeare is credited with inventing

by Evan Bartlett

24 August 2015

Despite passing away nearly four centuries ago, William Shakespeare has left an indelible mark on the English language.

The likes of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth have seen Shakespeare regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

While those plays are still widely read and celebrated, the Bard has arguably left a far greater legacy in all the words and phrases that he is credited with inventing, or at least first popularising through his work.

Here is a list of 117 words credited to Shakespeare (just try and having a conservation without using any of them):

academe

accused

addiction

advertising

amazement

arouse

assassination

arch-villain

backing

bandit

barefaced

beached

bedazzle

bedroom

besmirch

bet

birthplace

blanket

bloodstained

blushing

bump

buzzer

caked

cater

champion

cheap

circumstantial

cold-blooded

compromise

countless

courtship

critic

dauntless

dawn

deafening

discontent

dishearten

drugged

dwindle

elbow

embrace

epileptic

equivocal

excitement

exposure

eyeball

fashionable

fixture

flawed

frugal

generous

gloomy

gnarled

go-between

gossip

green-eyed

grovel

gust

hint

hobnob

honey-tongued

hurried

impartial

impede

inauspicious

invulnerable

jaded

label

lacklustre

laughable

lonely

lower

luggage

lustrous

madcap

majestic

marketable

metamorphise

mimic

monumental

moonbeam

mountaineer

negotiate

nimble-footed

noiseless

obscene

obsequiously

ode

olympian

outbreak

panders

pedant

premeditated

puking

radiance

rant

remorseless

sanctimonious

savagery

scuffle

secure

skim milk

submerge

summit

swagger

time-honoured

torture

tranquil

undress

unearthly

unreal

varied

vaulting

vulnerable

well-bred

worthless

zany

Citations for where the majority of these words can be found in Shakespeare’s plays can be seen here.