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Early Modern English

The standardization of Early Modern English spelling and usage, with Shakespeare playing a stylistic role.

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how many words did we get from shakespeare himself

The best-supported answers say Shakespeare is credited with introducing somewhere between roughly 1,700 and nearly 3,000 words to English, but that figure is a shorthand for “earliest recorded use in ...

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