10 words invented by authors

These authors are all geniuses based on their work alone, but they also happen to have invented words now used in everyday vernacular

Shakespeare may have been the biggest word inventor of them all.
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1. "Bump" first appeared in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare coined a ridiculous number of words, actually, although some historians and linguists think certain words just get attributed to Shakespeare even if he didn't really invent them.

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