In his criticism of their loquaciousness, Costard uses the word "honorificabilitudinitatibus", which is the longest word in English literature. Over the centuries the word has been adopted by theorists who believe Shakespeare was actually Francis Bacon.
They claim that "honorificabilitudinitatibus" is a nonsense word written into the play by Bacon so he could encrypt a message to his readers. They say that it is an anagram: "hi ludi F.Baconis nati tuiti orbi", which works out to be "these plays born of F.Bacon are preserved for the world." While this is an interesting coincidence, one must be careful not to take the anagram too seriously. The word "honorificabilitudinitatibus" is not a nonsense word at all, but rather it is the dative singular conjugation of a real medieval Latin word. Dante actually used it more than once, as did other writers of the period. A translation of it would be 'the state of being able to achieve honors.'
