21 Words We Owe to Shakespeare (And 4 We Don’t)

(via Mental Floss) No high school English curriculum is complete without a mandatory dose of William Shakespeare. As contemporary speakers of the English language, however, they might be interested to learn how much the Bard of Avon had in common with the generations that popularized LOL and OMG and reinvented the early 20th century slang term hipster.  Here are 21 examples of words that Shakespeare is the oldest known source for—as well as four we used to attribute to him, but no longer do.