PIE

This was the table used before the Reformation to find out the service belonging to each day. If the word be of Greek origin, it may be referred to πίναξ or πινακίδιον . But the Latin word is pica , which perhaps came from the ignorance of the friars, who have thrust in many barbarous words into the liturgies. Some say pie is derived from liter a picata , a great black letter in the beginning of some new order in the prayer, and among printers that term is still used, the pica letter .