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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AWW | Dutch | Algemene Weduwen-en Wezenwet | Public Administration, Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Aww, I can't take his money, I can't print my own money, I have to work for my money! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Aww slag! (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Aww I was such a cute baby. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Aww, crap! (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) Aww, tell it to the Marines, if you already haven't! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Lyrics | Aww hey hey hey! ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) Aww, 'n' we all wondered if she ("He Stopped Loving Her Today"; performing artist: George Jones) Aww, yeah (Do You Know (What It Takes); performing artist: Robyn) Aww you wished me well, you couldn't tell ("Crying"; performing artist: Roy Orbison) Aww, marry him or marry me, (Two Princes; performing artist: Spin Doctors) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "AWW" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AWW" is used about 6 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 |
| Interjection | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 | |
Direct Anagrams: waw. | |
| Words within the letters "a-w-w" | |
-1 letter: aw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-w-w" | |
+1 letter: wawl, waws. | |
+2 letters: wawls. | |
+3 letters: gewgaw, pawpaw, wallow, warsaw, wawled, wigwag, wigwam. | |
+4 letters: awkward, awlwort, dewclaw, gewgaws, pawpaws, swallow, towaway, walkway, wallows, warsaws, warwork, warworn, wawling, waxweed, waxwing, waxwork, waxworm, wayward, wayworn, wetware, whipsaw, wigwags, wigwams, windway, wireway, woadwax, woodwax. | |
+5 letters: awlworts, crawlway, dewclaws, downward, downwash, drawdown, hawkshaw, hawkweed, newshawk, stowaway, swallows, swimwear, towaways, townwear, walkaway, walkways, wallowed, wallower, warpower, warpwise, warworks, washbowl, wasteway, waterway, waxweeds, waxwings, waxworks, waxworms, wellaway, westward, wetwares, whipsawn, whipsaws, widthway, williwau, williwaw, willywaw, windflaw, windward, windways, wiredraw, wireways, withdraw. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 57 57 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000001 01010111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A W W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0057 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)355757 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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