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.

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/

Master List of Invented Words - ElizabethanDrama.org

MASTER LIST OF WORDS INVENTED BY SHAKESPEARE  Click the following for a printable pdf version of the list: MASTER LIST 594 Words The following is a complete list of individual words (and not compound words) whose earliest appearance in English literature was in a work attributed to Shakespeare.

ElizabethanDrama.org

If you need a pithy insult, go here

EDIT: … and it’s down. :p

English will never recover from this!