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How about a thread regarding something you just recently learned?
I was at the library browsing thru the book The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. At p. 7, I learned, to my amazement, that, in addition to having the largest vocabulary and thus using more unique words than any other writer of English in history--18,000--Shakespeare coined some 1,500 new words (and phrases), again more than any other writer. They include: amazement, dialogue, dwindle, downstairs, employer, worthless, and retirement! (If not for old Bill, what would this site have been called?)
Anything new you learned today?
I was at the library browsing thru the book The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. At p. 7, I learned, to my amazement, that, in addition to having the largest vocabulary and thus using more unique words than any other writer of English in history--18,000--Shakespeare coined some 1,500 new words (and phrases), again more than any other writer. They include: amazement, dialogue, dwindle, downstairs, employer, worthless, and retirement! (If not for old Bill, what would this site have been called?)
Anything new you learned today?