{"id":2585,"date":"2018-01-17T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2018-02-05T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:28:01","slug":"english-coined-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/2018\/01\/english-coined-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"The English Coined by Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2594\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Shakespeare_portraitSmall.png\" alt=\"English coined by William Shakespeare\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Shakespeare_portraitSmall.png 180w, https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Shakespeare_portraitSmall-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>There are few of us who haven\u2019t heard of William Shakespeare, the famous 16<sup>th<\/sup> century English playwright. Most of us would even be able to name at least one of his most famous works. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet or Macbeth perhaps? Far fewer of us though would have claimed to have read one of his plays\u00a0 or been to see a performance. The archaic language makes comprehension difficult even for native English speakers.<\/p>\n<p>However the language of Shakespeare may not be as out dated as it may at first appear.\u00a0Many terms that\u00a0Shakespeare either coined or popularised\u00a0 are still in common usage even today.\u00a0The following\u00a0is a list of our favourites:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<strong>In a pickle<\/strong>\u2019 \u2013 To be in a difficult position <em>(The Tempest)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Waiting with bated breath\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; To anticipate something with great eagerness <em>( The Merchant of Venice)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018On a wild goose chase\u2019<\/strong> \u2013 A search for something that is difficult to find or doesn\u2019t even exist <em>(Romeo &amp; Juliet)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018The be-all and end-all\u2019 <\/strong>\u2013 The only thing\/person that matters <em>(Macbeth)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018A heart of gold\u2019<\/strong> A sincere, generous and kind nature <em>\u00a0(Henry V)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Fair play\u2019<\/strong> \u2013 Conformity to agreed rules or morally upright conduct \u00a0<em>(The Tempest)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>\u00a0\u2018Gossip\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; A person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others <em>(A Midnight Summer\u2019s Dream)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Gloomy\u2018<\/strong>&#8211; Unhappy and without hope <em>(Titus Andronicus)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And last but not least \u2018<strong>Fashionable\u2019<\/strong> \u2013 Conforming to the current style or fashion <em>(Troilus and Cressida)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20140527-say-what-shakespeares-words\">Find out more<\/a> about Shakespeare\u2019s contribution to the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few of us who haven\u2019t heard of William Shakespeare, the famous 16th century English playwright. Most of us&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[131,132],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-english-usuage","tag-modern-english","tag-origins-of-english-terms","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lsi.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}