Did you all know? That shakespeare introduced 1700+ words in his plays

He's also credited with the current spelling of the name Jessica which is my favorite girl's name. A classic and elegant name that you can do a lot of different nicknames with. Good work Shakespeare!

A podcast that I listen to, A Way With Words, often gets questions about slang terms. One of the things that comes up a lot is that they will cite the first use of the term \*in print\* but also stress that slang terms are often used for many years before appearing in print. Then you have the idea, that others have suggested, that the print has to survive. So, a word may have been spoken in the early 1500s. Used in print in the mid 1500s. And then by the time Shakespeare used the word in his plays in the late 1500s, it was already being used by everyday people. But those printings from the mid-1500s haven't survived as long as his plays.

He didn't invent (most of) them. He might not even have been the first to write them down, but his works are the earliest uses of those words *that still survive*.

He invented about 600 words, not including compound words. He is the father of modern English. http://elizabethandrama.org/shakespeare-invented-words-project/

That's not really true. Shakespeare's plays are just the first known written use of those words. It's almost certain that most of them were in common use before he used them in his plays, or even that they were written down before in works that have since been lost. After all, if he put words that he invented into his plays, how would the audience know what they mean?