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Everyday phrases that came from Shakespeare

From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 1 07:40:58 2022

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/web-stories/9-everyday-phrases-that-actually-came-from-shakespeare/photostory/90565281.cms

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From marc hanson@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Fri Apr 1 09:32:00 2022

On Friday, April 1, 2022 at 10:41:00 AM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/web-stories/9-everyday-phrases-that-actually-came-from-shakespeare/photostory/90565281.cms

there are some really surprising, and great phrases here...

i read somewhere, maybe in HLAS,
that some of his writings may have been written down by Shakespeare, but heard from others
[if this were true, it would give us glimmers of spoken language, in 1600 England]

marc

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From John W Kennedy@21:1/5 to marc hanson on Sat Apr 2 18:22:21 2022

On 4/1/22 12:32 PM, marc hanson wrote:

On Friday, April 1, 2022 at 10:41:00 AM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/web-stories/9-everyday-phrases-that-actually-came-from-shakespeare/photostory/90565281.cms

there are some really surprising, and great phrases here...

i read somewhere, maybe in HLAS,
that some of his writings may have been written down by Shakespeare, but heard from others
[if this were true, it would give us glimmers of spoken language, in 1600 England]

The work of any writer is like to do that.

--
John W. Kennedy
Algernon Burbage, Lord Roderick, Father Martin, Bishop Baldwin,
King Pellinore, Captain Bailey, Merlin -- A Kingdom for a Stage!

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