The Word "Serendipity" on This Day in History

This Day in History: Sir Horace Walpole (who wrote the Gothic classic "The Castle of Otranto") invented the word _serendipity_ in a letter to a friend on this day in 1754. He is certainly not the only author to have invented words. Dr. Seuss gave us the word _Nerd_. John Milton coined the word _Pandemonium_ while Dickens gave us _boredom_, _cheesiness_, _rampage_, _snobbish_, _flummox_ and _doormat_. Shakespeare may have been the one author who gave us the most new
words ever...perhaps 2200 new words.

See also:

20 Words We Owe to Shakespeare

The Romance of the English Language by Logan P Smith 1921

The Best Victorian Literature, Over 100 Books on DVDrom