by Chris Campbell
Laissez Faire Books
William Shakespeare was a [expletive deleted] rebel.
He introduced 3,000 new words into the English language, including “frugal,” “skim milk,” “hint” and “bedroom.”
His vocabulary, it has been said, ranged from 17,000 to 29,000 words — double that of the average English speaker.
The Old Bard was a busy man. From 1564 to 1616, using 880,000 words, he wrote 40 plays and over 150 sonnets.