Our own language, if we count all the terms in all the specialized jargons attached to English, has millions

of words.

Suppose you wanted to know a plant’s name—the name of a particular shrub that could be used medicinally as a
sedative but could also be lethal in high doses.

Besmirch, impede, rant, and wild-goose chase are a few of the more than 1,000 words and phrases that he
evidently added to our language.

His coinages tend to be more a matter of tinkering or redefining than of plucking words out of thin air (or ayre, as
he spelled the word in the phrase “into thin ayre,” in The Tempest).

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