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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 |
BFA | English | Burkina Faso | Geography, Law |
BFA | French | Burkina Faso-code ISO | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There are a few annual franchise exhibitions in the UK each year, all of which are sponsored by the BFA. The BFA's goal is to ensure that the exhibitors are of a consistently high caliber and that the programs presented are valuable to both franchisers and franchisees. (references) | |
This sector is also covered comprehensively by the International Franchise Research Center (IFRC) at the University of Westminster through various reports and special studies, all of which are published by Lloyds Bank Plc and the IFRC. The following data are drawn either from the annual BFA survey published in 1998 the IFRC reports. (references) | ||
Trade | Costa Rica | A regional trend of consolidation is also evident, with recent purchases of Banco Banex by Panama's Banco del Istmo and Banco BFA by El Salvador's Banco Cuscatlán. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BFA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "BFA" is used about 9 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 (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
albans bfa st | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "BFA": abfarad, abfarads, subfamilies, subfamily. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f" | |
-1 letter: ab, ba, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f" | |
+1 letter: baff, barf, flab. | |
+2 letters: abaft, baffs, baffy, barfs, fable, flabs. | |
+3 letters: baffed, baffle, bagful, barfed, barfly, basify, befall, beflag, beflea, behalf, biface, confab, fabled, fabler, fables, fabric, ferbam, fibula, flabby, flambe, forbad, prefab. | |
+4 letters: abfarad, affable, affably, backfit, baffies, baffing, baffled, baffler, baffles, bagfuls, bagsful, bailiff, baleful, baneful, barefit, barfing, bashful, batfish, batfowl, beatify, bedfast, bedwarf, beefalo, befalls, beflags, befleas, bifaces, bifilar, bifocal, boatful, boffola, buffalo, confabs, effable, fablers, fabliau, fabling, fabrics, fabular, fadable, falbala, fatback, fatbird, feedbag, ferbams, fibroma, fibulae, fibular, fibulas, fimbria, finable, finback, fixable, flambee, flambes, flatbed, fleabag, flyable, flyboat, forbade, forbear, forebay, friable, gabfest, offbeat, prefabs. | |
| 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)42 46 41 |
| 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)01000010 01000110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B F A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0046 0041 |
| 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)364035 |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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