INCHCAPE ROCK

  

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INCHCAPE ROCK

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Inchcape Rock Twelve miles from land, in the German Sea. It is dangerous for navigators, and therefore the abbot of Aberbrothok fixed a bell on a float, which gave notice to sailors of its whereabouts. Ralph the Rover, a sea pirate, cut the bell from the float, and was wrecked on his return home on the very rock. Southey has a ballad on the subject.
Precisely the same tale is told of St. Goven's bell, in Pembrokeshire. In the chapel was a silver bell, which was stolen one summer evening by pirates, but no sooner had the boat put to sea than all the crew was wrecked. The silver bell was carried by sea-nymphs to the brink of a well, and whenever the stone of that well is struck the bell is heard to moan.
N.B. Inch or Innis means island. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: INCHCAPE ROCK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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inchcape rock

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Anagrams: INCHCAPE ROCK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-h-i-k-n-o-p-r"

-3 letters: raincheck.

-4 letters: aircheck, anechoic, apocrine, canephor, caponier, chancier, chaperon, chicaner, chickpea, cocinera, coprince, corncake, corniche, enchoric, encroach, pachinko, pincheck, poachier, princock, procaine, prochain, prochein.

-5 letters: acronic, aphonic, apnoeic, archine, caprice, caprine, caprock, caroche, chancre, chicane, chicano, chicken, choicer, chokier, chopine, choreic, chorine, chronic, coacher, cocaine, cochair, cockier, conchae, conchie, cornice, crocein, crocine, heparin.

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Alternative Orthography: INCHCAPE ROCK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 43 48 43 41 50 45      52 4F 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000011 01000001 01010000 01000101 00100000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

I N C H C A P E   R O C K

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0043 0048 0043 0041 0050 0045      0052 004F 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4348374237355039252493745

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