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"MARYS" is a plural of: mary. |
Date "MARYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Literature | Marys The four Marys. Mary Beaton (or Bethune), Mary Livingston (or Leuson), Mary Fleming (or Flemyng), and Mary Seaton (or Seyton); called the "Queen's Marys," that is, the ladies of the same age as Mary, afterwards Queen of Scots, and her companions. Mary Carmichael was not one of the four, although introduced in the well-known ballad. "Yestreen the queen had four Marys, This night she'll hae but three: There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton, Mary Carmichael, and me." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Marys verrücktes Krankenhaus (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | St. Marys on the Andreafsky River. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |  | Down the Saint Marys River, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indian village, Saint Marys [sic] Canal celebration, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wooden church, St. Marys, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tabby construction. Ruins of supposed Spanish mission, St. Marys, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Small sawmill on the Marys River near Corvallis, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Logs at sawmill on Marys River near Corvallis, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mechanicsville, St. Marys County, Maryland. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert. He has been local express agent for thirty-six years, she is the town's dressmaker. He helped workmen build the house himself. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Detail of tabby wall. Ruins of supposed Spanish mission. St. Marys Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Church. St. Marys, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Marys and Cape Florida forming one, that from the Cape to the Apalachicola another, and that from the Apalachicola to the Perdido, the third. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Marys, in Georgia, and of the coast of Florida, and for other purposes, has been executed so far as the appropriation would admit. |
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| "MARYS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MARYS" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MARYS": Saint Marys ♦ St. Marys ♦ St. Marys Point. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: arms, army, mars, mays, rams, rays, ryas, yams. | |
-2 letters: arm, ars, ays, mar, mas, may, ram, ras, ray, rya, say, yam, yar. | |
-3 letters: am, ar, as, ay, ma, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: cymars, marshy, mayors, morays, smarmy, smarty, smeary. | |
+2 letters: margays, martyrs, masonry, mastery, morassy, myriads, myricas, smartly, streamy, summary, yammers. | |
+3 letters: acronyms, aneurysm, boyarism, costmary, cramoisy, daymares, dayrooms, emissary, fairyism, kerygmas, lamasery, lampreys, masterly, mayoress, midyears, misandry, miscarry, mislayer, mustardy, palmyras, paronyms, paroxysm, pyramids, ramosely, ramosity, rosemary, royalism, seminary, smarmily, spermary, stramony, sycamore, sympatry, tramways, yardarms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 52 59 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. -.--. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010010 01011001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A R Y S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0052 0059 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4735525953 |
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