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Marketable

Invented in As You Like It

All the better; we shall be the more marketable (1.2.89)

Shakespeare came up with this one when there was an actual market at which to sell stuff. With the help of his trusty suffix –able, he made his word more, well, marketable.


Tag: As You Like It

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