William Shakespeare - he coined many words and phrases - with bated breath (merchant of Venice) - - a foregone conclusion (Othello) -. His use of language also shaped today's language.
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John Milton introduced the most amount of words to the English dictionary, with an overwhelming 630 words! Ben Jonson is runner-up with 558 words and John Donne tallies up 342 words. Shakespeare only invented 229 words. Examples of Milton's words are: debauchery, terrific, fragrance, lovelorn and healthy.
For the same reason they coined other words in the English language. To communicate.
tattarrattat - the longest palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door
No one coined it. It is an English term based on the Latin root familias.
Just as new coins can be made in a mint, new words can be invented by people. Many words have come into the English language and other languages because people "coined" new words; invented them.
When a new word can be traced to an individual, usually a very prominant person or literary figure, we can say that the person "coined" the new word. In the big picture, rarely can we attribute the coining of a word to an individual. Usually, words take hold in a more organic way, over periods of time. Words can be made in a few different ways. New words coined by individuals or general usage are referred to as neologisms.
The language with the most words is English, with over 1 million words. However, the average native English speaker knows around 20,000 to 35,000 words.
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These omnivorous hoarders had their name coined in the English language in 1829 (also chitmunk, 1832) from the Algonquian, most likely Ojibweajidamoo (Ottawa dialectajidamoonh) "red squirrel", literally "head first", or "one who descends trees headlong", influenced by the English words chit and mink.
Lewis Carroll invented many words in Through the Looking Glass for use in the poem Jabberwocky. The one which could be described as the most 'successful', as it has truly integrated into the English language, is chortled.
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