Fig. 1. Still from Langfocus YouTube Channel.       Paul from the Langfocus Youtube Channel, states Shakespeare, one of the most known writers of all time, wrote thirty-eight plays and 150 poems. However, they’re not so easy to understand because they were written in Early Modern English during the years 1590-1613. Shakespeare not only made an impact on culture, but more importantly on today’s English language – an extensive one at that.      aul continues that it has commonly been asserted that Shakespeare “created” 1700 words that are used in Modern English. However, Paul states there needs to be a reassessment of that claim because although the words do appear in writing for the first time in Shakespeare’s works, that didn’t necessarily mean Shakespeare wrote them since these words might have been in widespread use colloquially. Additionally, some of the 1700 “created” words also appeared in earlier, more obscure literatur...