It seems that with all of Shakespeare's prolific writing, he was responsible for contributing hundreds of words and phrases that we still use today. Some of these phrases have changed a little in usage today, or may have a slightly different meaning than originally, but Shakespeare did indeed know how to play with words in such a manner as to coin new expressions and axioms that we appreciate and use frequently today. He is often credited with changing a word's meaning or function (using a verb as a noun, such as "lace" becoming "laced"), adding prefixes or suffixes to make new words, or rearranging or combining words to give us new ones.
Words in our everyday language that can most likely be attributed to Shakespeare include eyeball, alligator, bedazzle, arch-villian, go-between and unearthly. Some of the phrases with which we are familiar today having been penned by Wm. Shakespeare are "eaten out of house and home", "pomp and circumstance", "strange bedfellows" and "a sorry sight". Many of the phrases attributed to Shakespeare may not have been originally coined by him but brought to the forefront by his plays. And many phrases that folks attribute to Shakespeare have been traced back to documented use before his time. Some of these "faux Shakespeare" quips include "all that glitters is not gold", "in a pickle", "out of the question" and "the naked truth".
