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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.


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