he was not of an age ,he was for all time
(said when shakespear was still alive)
Shakespeare spoke English so of course most of the words he used are still in use today. If you are talking about words that we have no record of anyone using before Shakespeare did, "puking" and "assassination" come to mind.
Almost all of the words Shakespeare used are still in common use today. To test this out, take a passage out of one of Shakespeare's plays or sonnets and type it into your word processor. Very few of the words will be marked by the spellchecker and these will mostly be either proper names and unusual contractions of words which are in common use, like e'en for even. The difficulty some people have with Shakespeare's words lies in the fact that most people have a much smaller vocabulary than Shakespeare had. Some people get by with as few as 5000 words, one-sixth of what Shakespeare used, which 5000 include a bunch that Shakespeare did not use. If Shakespeare seems to use a lot of words you don't know it is because you don't know enough words. There is a second difficulty people encounter with Shakespeare's words, which is that he sometimes uses common words with unexpected meanings. Usually these meanings are still there but they are secondary and we don't think about them or know them. So when he has Hamlet talk about "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", he means sling like a slingshot not something you use to hold a broken arm and fortune meaning luck not fortune meaning a pile of money. Nevertheless all seven words in the quotation are in common use today.
Brevity is the soul of wit
Hamlet spoke the words in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
All the World's a Stage --William Shakespeare--
Shakespeare spoke English so of course most of the words he used are still in use today. If you are talking about words that we have no record of anyone using before Shakespeare did, "puking" and "assassination" come to mind.
Constantly. Apart from full lines which have trickled into common usage, he is also credited with inventing many words that are still used today.
"The Bard" William Shakespeare
Almost all of the words Shakespeare used are still in common use today. To test this out, take a passage out of one of Shakespeare's plays or sonnets and type it into your word processor. Very few of the words will be marked by the spellchecker and these will mostly be either proper names and unusual contractions of words which are in common use, like e'en for even. The difficulty some people have with Shakespeare's words lies in the fact that most people have a much smaller vocabulary than Shakespeare had. Some people get by with as few as 5000 words, one-sixth of what Shakespeare used, which 5000 include a bunch that Shakespeare did not use. If Shakespeare seems to use a lot of words you don't know it is because you don't know enough words. There is a second difficulty people encounter with Shakespeare's words, which is that he sometimes uses common words with unexpected meanings. Usually these meanings are still there but they are secondary and we don't think about them or know them. So when he has Hamlet talk about "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", he means sling like a slingshot not something you use to hold a broken arm and fortune meaning luck not fortune meaning a pile of money. Nevertheless all seven words in the quotation are in common use today.
Almost all of the words Shakespeare used are still in common use today. To test this out, take a passage out of one of Shakespeare's plays or sonnets and type it into your word processor. Very few of the words will be marked by the spellchecker and these will mostly be either proper names and unusual contractions of words which are in common use, like e'en for even. The difficulty some people have with Shakespeare's words lies in the fact that most people have a much smaller vocabulary than Shakespeare had. Some people get by with as few as 5000 words, one-sixth of what Shakespeare used, which 5000 include a bunch that Shakespeare did not use. If Shakespeare seems to use a lot of words you don't know it is because you don't know enough words. There is a second difficulty people encounter with Shakespeare's words, which is that he sometimes uses common words with unexpected meanings. Usually these meanings are still there but they are secondary and we don't think about them or know them. So when he has Hamlet talk about "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", he means sling like a slingshot not something you use to hold a broken arm and fortune meaning luck not fortune meaning a pile of money. Nevertheless all seven words in the quotation are in common use today.
Shakespeare is not particularly famous for the words he spoke. He is much more famous for the words he had Richard Burbage, the star actor of his company, speak. Although we know that Shakespeare was an actor in his plays, we don't know what parts he played or what lines he had to say. We do know that they were supporting characters and would not have had the lines which have since become famous.
Shakespeare created over 3,000 words that are used in our everyday speech.
shakespeare used 31534 words and we use over 60, 000
The word 'Shakespeare' is a noun, a proper noun, the name of a person.The word Shakespearean is the adjective form, a proper adjective.A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.The noun can be used in the possessive form or the adjective can be used to describe a noun. Examples:Shakespeare wrote many plays. (noun)Shakespeare's works are as popular as ever. (possessive noun)Shakespearean quotations are still used today. (adjective)He had a way with words. (the pronoun 'he' takes the place of the noun 'Shakespeare')
They were written by William Shakespeare. They appear in his play Hamlet.
The play is Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. These are the first words in Hamlet's famous monologue, in which he contemplates suicide.
Brevity is the soul of wit