So, there’s some film coming out about whether Shakespeare did or did not really exist, or something. Yeah, I’m keen on seeing it, but I have always been impressed by the idea of making up stuff, and whoever it was that is now attributed as Shakespeare made heaps of good stuff up. Here’s a list of words from
- accommodation
- aerial
- amazement
- apostrophe
- assassination
- auspicious
- baseless
- bloody
- bump
- castigate
- changeful
- clangor
- control (noun)
- countless
- courtship
- critic
- critical
- dexterously
- dishearten
- dislocate
- dwindle
- eventful
- exposure
- fitful
- frugal
- generous
- gloomy
- gnarled
- hurry
- impartial
- inauspicious
- indistinguishable
- invulnerable
- lapse
- laughable
- lonely
- majestic
- misplaced
- monumental
- multitudinous
- obscene
- palmy
- perusal
- pious
- premeditated
- radiance
- reliance
- road
- sanctimonious
- seamy
- sportive
- submerge
- suspicious
And from the same site, here are some phrases that he/they whatever came up with:
- all that glitters isn’t gold
- barefaced
- be all and end all
- break the ice
- breathe one’s last
- brevity is the soul of wit
- catch a cold
- clothes make the man
- disgraceful conduct
- dog will have his day
- eat out of house and home
- elbowroom
- fair play
- fancy-free
- flaming youth
- foregone conclusion
- frailty, thy name is woman
- give the devil his due
- green eyed monster
- heart of gold
- heartsick
- hot-blooded
- housekeeping
- it smells to heaven
- it’s Greek to me
- lackluster
- leapfrog
- live long day
- long-haired
- method in his madness
- mind’s eye
- ministering angel
- more sinned against than sinning
- naked truth
- neither a borrower nor a lender be
- one fell swoop
- pitched battle
- primrose path
- strange bedfellows
- the course of true love never did run smooth
- the lady doth protest too much
- the milk of human kindness
- to thine own self be true
- too much of a good thing
- towering passion
- wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve
- witching time of the night
For my part, I believe that Shakespeare existed, that he was one guy and that I would have enjoyed sharing a mead with him in the local tavern.
I love Shakespeare – here is a great site you might like. Have used it with my Year 11 English Language students. In case, the link doesn’t work – it’s called Will’s Words. Love the blog BTW http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/swf/words.html
I’ve had to get away from that site, it is way too addictive! And despite reading and being amazed by the words I put in my blog, I still got them all wrong. Terrible! Thanks!