Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
Born: September 3, 1561
Died: July 2, 1613 (aged 51)
Bio: Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry.