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Show Shakespeare Built Up Language in Writings So far did it go, this movement ot linguistic anarchy, declared Professoi Gordon, that prudent, word-fearing men grew alarmed, and luter nev? words were blacklisted. When Shakespeare was at the height of his powers, he almost made his language, as the Americans say they do today, as he went along. Dr. George Gordon of Oxford pointed out in a lecture on Shakespeare English before be-fore the Royal Institution of London. Referring to the state of the F.ng-lish F.ng-lish language in the Sixteenth century. cen-tury. Professor Gordon said there was no fixed pronunciation or accent and there was neither a standard grammar gram-mar nor a standard dictionary. The first qu: lity of Elizabethan and therefore there-fore of Shakespearean English was its hospitality and its passion for experiment, ex-periment, Its willingness to use every form of verbal wealth, to try everything every-thing "once, at least." |