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A man of Shakespeare’s linguistic versatility must have possessed thousands of words that he never used because he didn’t like or require them.
Don Gagnon
A man of Shakespeare’s linguistic versatility must have possessed thousands of words that he never used because he didn’t like or require them. Not once in his plays can you find the words Bible, Trinity, or Holy Ghost, and yet that is not to suggest that he was not familiar with them.
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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