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The practice of recording and compiling words, with lexicographers recording the first known textual appearance of words.
Shakespeare's texts supply the first recorded use of many English words and helped normalize countless phrases that remain in everyday speech; scholars estimate he introduced or popularized roughly 1,...
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 ...
William Shakespeare is widely credited with introducing hundreds to thousands of English words into print, but the exact count depends on what "created" means: authoritative sources and projects cite ...