23/06/2026
Before Shakespeare wrote them down, words like bedroom, lonely, generous, obscene, and dwindle did not exist in English.
He created new words for his plays and poems by reshaping Latin and French roots, adding prefixes and suffixes, and turning words into new forms.
One writer, one lifetime, and over 1700 words that are still part of everyday English.
A reminder that language is not fixed, it is always evolving.