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(Video) 15 Words You Never Knew Came From Famous Literatures

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William Shakespeare himself alone introduced thousands of new words into the English vocabulary. It’s not a secret that other famous literatures and great authors have played their roles in the past and present, contributing to a wide range of words to our English language that we use today. In this video, we’ll cover 15 of those words, which books they came from and the meaning behind them. Some of them might seem like pretty normal words for us today, but we guess they’re something new for the readers at that time. Happy reading!

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