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How many words? He didn't create any words that I know of, he used the language of the time. Language has evolved which is what makes reading his plays and sonnets so difficult.
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Shakespeare has been accredited with the coinage of anything between 1700 and over, many thousands .. Nobody could possible know for sure .The amount of words used in his plays and works are incredible for the time. Since a dictionary of his new words was not made at the time who can truthfully say which he really coined. He certainly had an enormous vocabulary for Elizabethan times, when the average vocabulary was said to be about 500 words.
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he did create words rave lady!!!! im not sure how many but i know he introduce a lot of words, about 1700, and those words were added to the dictionary and some of them are still used today!
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http://www.cracked.com/article_15859_10-words-phrases-you-wont-believe-shakespeare-invented.html
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I doubt he created any at all, other than names. His job was to communicate. You don't do that with made-up words. Writers USE words. They only create what they absolutely have to.
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He coined thousands. Between 1500 and 1700 stuck and are part of the language today. . http://satanmaneuver.blogspot.com/2005/04/chapter-8.html . See above link. That's who Shakespeare was. .
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i dont know but he created two names so popular today Jessica and Amanda
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Oh I hear that there are hundreds... Almost as many as Dr Suess?
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Quite a few. The word "puke" is the only one I know for sure.
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He created LOTS of words. It's funny that some of you say he created none. Some of his most famous that are used today are puke, bedroom, and assassination. There are many more of course.
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