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Ignoramus is Latin for "we do not know". The English use of the word originates from the practice of English common law. When the case was criminal, it was brought before a jury of twelve men. If the defendant was considered guilty nothing was written on the back of the bill, but if he or she was considered not guilty, "they write on the backside ignoramus, and so deliver it to the Justices to whome it [was] rent into peeces immediately." (Sir Thomas Smith. De Republica Anglorum. 1583. Book II.18.)

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