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Alaska, July 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin does know a thing or two about being in the limelight. Recently she tweeted on the popular social networking and microblogging site Twitter and in that tweet she managed to coin a new word – ‘refudiate’. She has a whooping 197,000+ followers on Twitter.

And since then there has been no looking back. She faced the brunt from all quarters for the mistake. However in her defense she compared herself to Shakespeare and said that she had just coined a new word just like the master wordsmith – Shakespeare. She tweeted that, “Refudiate,” “misunderestimate,” “wee-wee’d up.” English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!“

And this tweet of her set off a trend on Twitter in the form of #shakespalin. Twitter users took inspiration from her tweet and twisted around the Brad’s famous sayings and posted them on Twitter with the #shakespalin. Sarah Palin had compared herself to Shakespeare but in the end she ended up with a comical sight on Twitter, as she managed to spark off the #shakespalin trend.

Some of the notable #shakespalin tweets are as follows: -

@freehawk’s “But soft, what light from yonder window breaks? It is the East, and I can see Russia from my front porch”

@Paulandstorm’s “Friends, Real Americans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to play “gotcha” journalism”

@djsamk’s “Neither a thinker nor a reader be / for thought oft loses both itself and friend / and reading dulls the edge of Fox TV.”

@cartesianangst’s “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Couric, than are dreamt of in your foreign policy magazines.“