If your teachers are impressed by your interesting style of writing, or your friends vouch for your command over English language, you should partially be thankful to the greatest dramatist of all times, William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Now, a few of you may end up frowning and thinking, how can one be grateful to a writer whose works are brimming with baffling words like ‘hither’, ‘thither’, ‘wherefore’, ‘seest’, ‘thyself’, ‘thou’, ‘thee’, ‘thine’ etc.? Well, if that’s what you think then it’s ‘high time’ you changed your mind. There’s a reason why the legend is still and prolly will be ruling the roost in the world of English literature and language in the near future. Here’s why.
Popularly known as the ‘Bard of Avon’, more than 4,000 of his coinage or original words and phrases are found in modern....
