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 Shakespeare is credited with inventing the below list of words still in regular use:

accommodation
aerial
amazement
apostrophe
assassination
auspicious
baseless
bloody
bump
castigate
changeful
clangor
control (noun)
countless
courtship
critic
critical
dexterously
dishearten
dislocate
dwindle
eventful
exposure
fitful
frugal
generous
gloomy
gnarled
hurry
impartial
inauspicious
indistinguishable
invulnerable
lapse
laughable
lonely
majestic
misplaced
monumental
multitudinous
obscene
palmy
perusal
pious
premeditated
radiance
reliance
road
sanctimonious
seamy
sportive
submerge
suspicious

He also created a number of words in his plays that never quite caught on… words like ‘Armgaunt’, ‘Eftes’, ‘Impeticos’, ‘Insisture’, ‘Pajock’, ‘Pioned’ ‘Ribaudred’ and ‘Wappened’.
 
 Instead of “what happened?” I might just shorten that to “wappened?” And shoutout Shakespeare on dat 
 Few people know he was also the first to use 
https://c.tenor.com/6fvxbG-ZRA0AAAAd/tenor.gif 
 I wonder how many of those are in the Bitcoin word list.  
 Interesting 
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 With so much new vocabulary, hard to see how contemporaries really understood his plays.