> Sir Thomas Elyot (born c. 1490—died March 26, 1546, Carleton, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was an English author and administrator, memorable for his championship and use of English prose for subjects then customarily treated in Latin. Both as a philosopher and as a lexicographer, he endeavoured to “augment our Englysshe tongue” as a medium for ideas.
That's the kind of achievement I'm striving for in life. I want to get a few high brow "nig-" words in the dictionary myself.