the Bard-o-meter does. It almost seems to merely measure a kind of linguistic residuum -- though I don't think that's quite right, either. Language is a living thing. But just as we learn from genetics that most life, and certainly human life, shares a huge amount of genetic material, so to speak, so this tool (metric?) shows us the strong strains of Shakespeare's speech threading through the double-helix of our contemporary linguistic codes. Anyhow, thank you, O.E.D., for yet another wonderfully thought-provoking way to ransack the English word hoard! Dennis Gittinger I entered an original pseudo-Shakespearian insults, viz., "Thou canst walk upon the waters, for even the sea will not embrace thee whole; surely thou wast not born, but rather hatched like an evil plot." 100% and "You are William Shakespeare." Unlikely; I'm a math professor. 100% and we like we went to the mall but there were like too many people so we like left... yea Hello everyone, and thank you for all your engagement with this tool. I hope you have enjoyed it. I guess it's time I commented, since I wrote it. The first point I would like to make is this: to repeat what I said above in the technical notes, that this is primarily a bit of fun and you are not intended to take it too seriously. It was originally created in response to a comment I saw on Twitter when my OED colleagues added some new words. "The language of Shakespeare", we were