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What’s in a Word – Authorisms Quiz

By October 23, 2016Quizzes

Considering their entire livelihoods depended upon the use of words and language it should come as no surprise that many of today’s words have their (printed) beginnings at the hands of some of our favourite authors. In this Authorisms quiz the words included may have been around before these authors used them but it is to them that their etymology accredited

 


In this authorisms quiz we have fifteen words that have their creation accredited to an author, all you need to do is work out which author invented which word.

Don’t forget to let us know how you get on.

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