John Milton, neolog
Det måste ha varit härligt att leva i 1600-talets England. "Hm, det här verkar det inte finnas något ord för. Let's make it up!".
400-årsjubilerande John Milton var en särskilt uppfinningsrik ordsmed. The Guardian skriver:
400-årsjubilerande John Milton var en särskilt uppfinningsrik ordsmed. The Guardian skriver:
According to Gavin Alexander, lecturer in English at Cambridge university and fellow of Milton's alma mater, Christ's College, who has trawled the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for evidence, Milton is responsible for introducing some 630 words to the English language, making him the country's greatest neologist, ahead of Ben Jonson with 558, John Donne with 342 and Shakespeare with 229. Without the great poet there would be no liturgical, debauchery, besottedly, unhealthily, padlock, dismissive, terrific, embellishing, fragrance, didactic or love-lorn. And certainly no complacency.Uppdatering: förresten så kan man bäddra i det enda kvarvarande manuskriptet för Paradise Lost, hos The Morgan Library.
The only surviving manuscript of Paradise Lost is this 33-page fair copy, written in secretary script by a professional scribe, who probably transcribed patchwork pages of text Milton had dictated to several different amanuenses. This fair copy was corrected by at least five different hands under Milton's personal direction and became the printer's copy, used to set the type for the first edition of the book.Kolla också in Open Milton.
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