PugJesusShakespeare is DESTROYING the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ðŸ˜
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1920921/shakespeare-is-destroying-the-english-language
KairosWhat 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.