Bard of Avon

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cabal" <md at ...> wrote:

Steve/bboyminn:
> Still, if Google can't make the association, it has to be
> a very thin association at best.

md:
> I've studied and taught Shakespeare, it doesn't even sound like him to me.
> None of my research in the past has ever turned that up (including
> biographical -- I do have an English degree ;-) nor do any websites
> collecting anything he ever wrote down.
> 
> I don't care if someone makes a mistake, but to defend so adamantly
> something so easily proven wrong just drove me nuts.

Geoff:
Agreed. Shakespeare wrote in blank verse. This just wouldn't fit. 

Also, I acquired the following titbit of information from one of the 
etymology sources on line:

"Plunder" A word acquired by English via the Thirty Years War and 
applied in native use after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. 
Shakespeare died in 1616. Conclusions?