Chrysti The Wordsmith: Shakespeare's Words - 1

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. William Shakespeare who was born in April of 15th 64 and died fifty two years later in April of 16 16 lived in a time when the English vocabulary was expanding at an unprecedented rate. England's trade with and colonization of the East Indies and the new world brought hundreds of novel terms to the English language a renewed European interest in mathematics science medicine and history contributed as well to the expanding vocabulary. Shakespeare's plays reflected England's interest in new terminologies for example the Bard was the first to print the verb rant meaning to talk loudly and excessively rant from the Dutch verb Renton meaning to rave occurs in Hamlet written in sixteen hundred. We see the noun assassination printed for the first time in the 16 06 tragedy Macbeth though the word assassin had long been in print in the English language. Shakespeare probably invented the derived assassination meaning the murder of a prominent or royal person.

The printed debut of the word frugal was in The Merry Wives of Windsor 16 0 1. Shakespeare coined the phrase soft hearted and included it in the dialogue of his Henry the six part to the useful noun mountaineer occurs in the dialogue of the 16 0 9 play symbol. The Bard was also the first to print alligator and the Leap Frog and hundreds of other novel terms. I'm Christie the wordsmith. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.