Shakespeare is DESTROYING the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ðŸ˜
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I always figured it was due to vulgar culture not usually leaving written records prior to that.
So we get 37 plays written as popular culture, it makes sense that we get a lot of newly attested words used in the popular culture of the day.
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What 1700 words? I assume you mean completely valid latin base words that just didn’t happen to be in most dictionaries at the time.
Most words weren’t, as the first English dictionaries were only just being written.
https://elizabethandrama.org/shakespeare-invented-words-project/master-list-invented-words/
English will never recover from this!
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EDIT: … and it’s down. :p