Question: what are some words that william shakespeare used that have different meaning now? Words that look the same but now have different meanings

Answer: The most obvious is the line:\n\n"Wherefore art thou Romeo?"\n\nWherefore does not mean "where" as if she's asking where he is.  She's asking why he had to be Romeo, in other words, from a family that her family is feuding.  She's asking why he couldn't have been someone else.\n\nA modern-day lament might be, "Oh, why did I have to fall in love with HIM?  Why couldn't it have been someone else -- anyone else!?"
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