Shakespeare - The History of English (3/10)
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Uploaded by OUlearn on Jul 1, 2011
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This video shows us that Shakespeare invented over 2000 new words and phrases like eyeball, anchovy and puppy.
(Part 3 of 10)
Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA03075BAD88B909E
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@Detroitsucks247 Um... YEAH!!!
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@Detroitsucks247 Bloody hell fire..............
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Well now, at last he's showing that he was actually useful.
I've always thought he was much ado about nothing indeed.
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@SWEDISHnFINNISH It's not that he "couldn't" spell it; it's simply that spelling was more fluid -- less codified -- at that time.
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Neat!
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Does anyone care about shakespeare?
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I always thought English was dry and miserable lol
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@SWEDISHnFINNISH The Brits don't want to admit the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, wrote the Shakespeare works. With crazy "political correctness" it is bad enough that he was a white European man, let alone an aristocrat. In most western democracies the middle class is so flattered and pandered to by their politicians that many people actually believe the Shakespeare works were written by a middle class businessman.
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Its a little weird they let an animated shakespeare write his name, because the real shakespeare couldn't even spell it.
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I love Shakespeare, he really did know how to use the English language beautifully. I know this has been said many times before; I just figured I'd throw my own two, unoriginal cents in on my favorite author.
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I know it's meant to be funny, but people didn't drink tea in England yet in the Elizabethan age!
@ihnlChiv Shakespeare would also change change words to make new ones, like the word "amazement" our of "maze"; as in, you're so confused that you feel like you're in a maze, which came to mean: in wonderment. People would understand the word from the context, and then start using them because it was fashionable to try new ones out!
chasch 7 months ago 11
@AnNoYiNsPo0n You should be "taught" in schools.
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