RE: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance

Subject: RE: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:29:32 -0700


Quoting Michael Strickland <Mstrickland -at- entriq -dot- com>:

> If recollection serves, much of Will's wordsmithing contributed to the
> evolution from Middle English to Modern English, as many words now extant
> were created from whole cloth by the Bard himself.

Yes and no. He was the first to use a lot of words in print, but whether he was
dazzling inventive or always had an ear open for a juicy new word is anybody's
guess. Either way, he generally had good taste. Some of the words coined in his
day were best forgotten.

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Bruce Byfield

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