Australian academic David McInnis claims literary bias by first editors of OED has credited Shakespeare with inventing phrases in common Elizabethan useShakespeare did not coin phrases such as "it's Greek to me" and "a wild goose chase", according to an Australian academic.In an article for the University of Melbourne, Dr David McInnis, a Shakespeare lecturer at the institution, accuses the Oxford English Dictionary …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AM on September 6, 2016