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Literature | Onslow invoked by Thomson in his Autumn, was Arthur Onslow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, termed clarum ac venerabilc nomen. It was said of him that "his knowledge of the Constitution was only equalled by his attachment to it." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Onslow, Iowa."
Date "ONSLOW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
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Screenplays | Why is Onslow reading the Financial Times? (Keeping Up Appearances; writing credit: Roy Clarke) | |
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| "ONSLOW" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "ONSLOW" is used about 47 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) | 97.87% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Onslow, IA (city, FIPS 59250) |
Expression using "ONSLOW": Onslow County. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "ONSLOW": onslow-fane. | |
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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 "l-n-o-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: loons, nolos, snool, solon, swoon, wools. | |
-2 letters: loon, loos, lown, lows, nolo, nows, owls, owns, slow, snow, solo, soon, sown, wons, wool, woos. | |
-3 letters: loo, low, noo, nos, now, ons, owl, own, sol, son, sow, won, woo, wos. | |
-4 letters: lo, no, on, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-n-o-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: woolens. | |
+2 letters: longbows, lowdowns, slowdown, snowmold, snowplow, woollens, woolskin. | |
+3 letters: blowdowns, closedown, cooldowns, downloads, downslope, flowstone, loanwords, lockdowns, lookdowns, moonwalks, slowdowns, snowmolds, snowplows, townsfolk, woodlands, woolskins. | |
+4 letters: closedowns, flowstones, followings, hollowness, lancewoods, sandalwood, snowblower, snowmobile, snowplowed, swooningly, underwools, wolfhounds, womenfolks, wondrously, woolliness. | |
+5 letters: candlewoods, commonweals, coneflowers, cornflowers, hornswoggle, moonflowers, sandalwoods, snowblowers, snowmobiler, snowmobiles, snowplowing, townspeople, unwholesome, woodlanders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 4E 53 4C 4F 57 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -. ... .-.. --- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01001110 01010011 01001100 01001111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O N S L O W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 004E 0053 004C 004F 0057 |
| 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)494853464957 |
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