Twain & Shakespeare both made up many of the words and idioms used today. Who are the other great wordsmiths that forged our vocabulary?
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Ben Jonson and Thomas More underrated contributors also to the upstream of Good New Words
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(I assume Kyd, Marlowe, Floyd also... Elizabethan playwrights dumping vernacular into print for the first time were the real MVPs of modern English)
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And Tyndall before KJV
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Tyndale*
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