Some people may confuse these words as being proper nouns and try to capitalize them using that rule of capitalization. 1  The winter season allows for many snow related sports. 2  My favorite flowers bloom in the spring. 3  This summerâs heat wave lasted over a month. 4  We often take long drives to look at autumn foliage.
Soon, however, he became both an accomplished actor and dramatist. At a final tally, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and five poetry collections, writing 17,677 unique words, with a final word count of over one million. Shockingly, 1,700 of these 17,677 words were invented by Shakespeare. The first time they appeared in print or in speech was in the works of Shakespeare. No author could get away with that today, probably in any language. Some of these words are now so commonplace that itâs a wonder how English speakers got by without them.
I compiled these from multiple sources online in 2003. Each of these words and compounds supposedly is not known to have appeared in print prior to the publication of Shakespeare's works. For this reason, people claim that Shakespeare invented these words. How many of these are true coinages by the Bard, and how many are simply the earliest written attestations of a word or words already in use, I can't tell you. The ones that seem real are new forms of words already in the language.