EntertainmentMind-BlowingShakespeare's works contain the first recorded use of approximately 1,700 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.881k
EntertainmentFunnyShakespeare helped popularize "yo momma" style insults in literature, with characters in his plays trading maternal put-downs like "Villain, I have done thy mother" in Titus Andronicus.374k
EntertainmentInterestingShakespeare invented hundreds of English words still used today, including 'assassination,' 'lonely,' 'generous,' and 'eyeball.'163k