Speaking of Shakespeare, he added a lot of words to the English language.
Some sources say 1,700. Other sources say not so much. But he did coin quite a few words and phrases that are still in use today. Some of his (probable) contributions include:
- Gloomy
- Lonely
- Fashionable
- Jaded
- Watchdog
The oldest words in English are thousands of years old.
The newest English words were added to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary just yesterday.
They include:
- TMI- too much information
- FOMO: Fear of missing out
- Hella: “a lot of” something. They’re about 10 years late on this one.
- Dox: to publicly identify or publish private information about [someone] especially as a form of punishment or revenge.
Lot of words that you think of as “English” were actually borrowed from other languages.
For example, “I” and “we” may be among the oldest English words, but “they,” “their” and “them” come from the Old Norse “þeir.” The original English pronouns were hie, hire and heora. Other common borrowed words include “leg” (from the Old Norse leggr), “skin” (also from Old Norse), and “person” (the Old French persone).
The longest word in the English language is neither “antidisestablishmentarianism” nor “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
A “moment” originally meant “1/40th of an hour.”
Right now, there are only three words in English that end in -gry:
- Hungry
- Angry
- Hangry- Yes, it’s a “real”word now. It was added to the Oxford online dictionary last year.
The letters “ough” can be pronounced 9 different ways.
Find them all in this sentence: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccough
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