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I'll reword that bit.

Lady Macbeth, I'll have to come back to that. I'm away this weekend so I'll have to see what I can find out. Thanks for the book recommendation!

Entry: William Shakespeare: Wordsmith Extraordinaire - A75377596
Author: Elentari - U202814

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I have managed to get a copy of Think On My Words from the library in the town where I work, so I hope to update this in the next few days.

Right then, I've read the relevant bits of the book and made some improvements. I hope to add a little more in the next few days, but I want to keep you all updated.

This read very well and I learnt a lot. The newest version appears to have addressed the points that others have raised and I can't see any to add myself (although my knowledge of English and of Shakespeare is pretty poor!).

Overall, this gets my thumbs up.

Thanks Vip.

I have made a few more changes and I think it is ready now. Does anyone else have any comments?

This is a nice, clear explanation of Shakespeare's contribution to the language - and, judging by the comments, one that was not widely known. Good work!

In 'Love's Labours Lost', Shakespeare made fun of some of the scholars of his day. Yep, they had those pedants even back when they were adding all those new words. (One reason they were adding all those words was that English speakers had an expressed inferiority complex about being a johnny-come-lately language. This led to, well, stealing - my figures are rough, but I think we stole about half of Latin and a third of Greek before we cried 'Hold, enough!')

One character in LLL claims we should pronounce the 'b' in 'debt' (wrong, it's French), and spell 'abominable' with an 'h' (false etymology there, also French).

Shakespeare has another character say, 'They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.'

I think we're just as proud of a new word as our ancestors were. And this entry reminds us of that.

Thanks Dmitri, that's interesting!

Excellent pithy Entry Elentari on a fascinating subject. We might have to tweak the title a little, to make it sufficiently different from this Entry A795602, but otherwise this looks close to being finished. Any objections if we whisk this away for submission?

Thanks Eds. Tweak away! Unfortunately I have no suggestions at the moment.

Any more comments?

Editors, editors, wherefore art though editors? Take this away.

Sowwy, couldn't resist, I'll get me coat now.


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*sneaks back, tries to delete the rogue 'gh', fails, s off again*


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Thanks!

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