William Shakespeare was one of Englands greatest poets and dramatists People all around the globe celebrate National Shakespeare Day on April 23 rd each year The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare Shakespeare invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into v ID: 717051
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National Shakespeare Day
William Shakespeare was one of England’s greatest poets and dramatists. People all around the globe celebrate National Shakespeare Day on April 23rd each year.Slide2
The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. Shakespeare invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising wholly original words.
National Shakespeare Day –
Did you know…
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Words Shakespeare Invented
Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare invented – how many do you recognise?
academeaccused
addiction
advertising
amazementarouseassassinationbacking
banditbedroombeached
besmirch
birthplace
blanket
bloodstained
barefaced
blushing
bet
bump
buzzer
caked
cater
champion
circumstantial
cold-blooded
compromise
courtship
countless
critic
dauntless
dawn
deafening
discontent
dishearten
drugged
dwindle
epileptic
equivocal
elbow
excitement
exposure
eyeball
fashionable
fixture
flawed
frugal
generous
gloomy
gossip
green-eyed
gust
hint
hobnob
hurried
impede
impartial
invulnerable
jaded
label
lackluster
laughable
lonely
lower
luggage
lustrous
madcap
majestic
marketable
metamorphize
mimic
monumental
moonbeam
mountaineer
negotiate
noiseless
obscene
obsequiously
ode
olympian
outbreak
panders
pedant
premeditated
puking
radiance
rant
remorseless
savagery
scuffle
secure
skim milk
submerge
summit
swagger
torture
tranquil
undress
unreal
varied
vaulting
worthless
zany
gnarled
grovelSlide4
Thou art a
beslubbered
, pebbling, churlish
clotpole
, a beef-witted,
gleekng bum-bailey, a gorbellied, mewling hedge born, onion-eyed, fustilarian, cob loaf, flap-eared, knotty-pated measle, you ruttish, reeking, coxcomb, you hugger-mugger moldwarp, you pottle-deep, maggot pie lewdster, yeasty, tickle-brained, whey-faced, nut-hook skainsmate?
Watch this insulting video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zchaqy2AlnQShakespeare could also write a good insult or twenty!Slide5
Create your own Shakespearian insult!
Use the table below to create you own insult. Simply start your sentence with ‘thou’ and pick a word from each column!
What are you waiting for thou infectious onion-eyed codpiece!
bootless
beetle-headed
bladdercloutedclay-brainedbum-baileydissembling
dizzy-eyedcoxcomb
droningdoghearted
codpiece
errant
dread-bolted
death-token
frothy
fen-sucked
flirt-gill
gleeking
flap-mouthed
foot-licker
goatish
fly-bitten
fustilarian
infectious
full-gorged
haggard
jarring
guts-griping
harpy
loggerheaded
half-faced
hedge-pig
puking
knotty-pated
malt-worm
rank
onion-eyed
minnow
ruttish
pox-marked
mumble-news
saucy
reeling-ripe
nut-hook
spongy
rude-growing
pignut
unmuzzled
sheep-biting
ratsbane
vain
spur-galled
scut
villainous
tardy-gaited
strumpet
weedy
unchin-snouted
whey-face