Baconian

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The Word of the Day for May 11 is:

Baconian   \bay-KOH-nee-un\   noun
     : one who believes that Francis Bacon wrote the works usually attributed 
to Shakespeare

Example sentence:
     Baconians argue that the wide range of knowledge exhibited in 
Shakespeare's plays shows a level of learning that only Bacon could have had.

Did you know? 
     Sir Francis Bacon was a man of many talents: he was a lawyer, a statesman, 
a philosopher, and a man of letters. He is remembered for the style and 
expression of his writing, for his power as a speaker in Parliament, and for 
his advocacy of what is today known as the "Baconian method" of arriving at 
scientific conclusions by careful examination of evidence and sorting of facts. 
Sir Francis Bacon is also considered, by some people, to be the true author of 
Shakespeare's works. The theory, which was first propounded in the mid-1800s, 
flourished from about 1880 to 1930 and is still subscribed to in certain 
circles today. 





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