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Literature | Ringing the Changes A method of swindling by changing gold and silver in payment of goods. For example: A man goes to a tavern and asks for two-pennyworth of whisky. He lays on the counter half a sovereign, and receives nine shillings and tenpence in change. "Oh!" (says the man) "give me the half-sovereign back, I have such a lot of change." He then takes up ten shillings in silver and receives back the half-sovereign. The barmaid is about to take up the silver when the man says, "Give me a sovereign in lieu of this half-sovereign and ten shillingsworth of silver." This is done, and, of course, the barmaid loses ten shillings by the transaction. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ringing the Changes (1929) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ringing the changes on silver. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-g-g-h-h-i-i-n-n-n-r-s-t" | |
-4 letters: interchanging, intransigence. | |
-5 letters: garnisheeing, ingatherings, inheritances, interchanges. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 49 4E 47 49 4E 47 54 48 45 43 48 41 4E 47 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R I N G I N G   T H E   C H A N G E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0049 004E 0047 0049 004E 0047 0054 0048 0045 0043 0048 0041 004E 0047 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)524348414348412544239237423548413953 |
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