Contested Will: What is Shakespeare's true linguistic legacy?
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language addresses questions of meaning and structure in the playwright’s work. Which words did he coin? Take a look.
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Dictionary Captures Nuances and Uses of Shakespeare's Words: New 'Verbal Treasure Trove – India Education | Latest Education News | Global Educational News
William Shakespeare used the word dotage to capture reduced mental ability (as in being blindly in love) rather than as a quaint term for old age, successes were really outcomes – one could talk of a ‘bad success’ – and, it turns out, the word bastar
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New 'verbal treasure trove' dictionary captur
New research by Lancaster University sheds light on Shakespearean times with the publication of The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, to be published by Bloomsbury on August 24. A key feature of the project is that is uses corpus linguistics, the computer-aided analysis of massive datasets of language, to provide evidence-based accounts of Shakespeare's language.
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People care more about POT HOLES than heart failure
Lancaster University researchers studied more than 2billion words from books and parliamentary speeches. They found that potholes were mentioned 37 times more often than 'heart failure'.
Source: dailymail.co.uk