OTAGO

Specialty Definition: Otago

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Otago region of New Zealand lies in the southeast of the South Island. It comprises approximately 32,000 sq km making it the second largest region in New Zealand. The population of the region as of 2001 census was 181,542.
The name "Otago" anglicises the Kai Tahu Maori dialect name "Otakou". The village of Otakou on the Otago Peninsula served as a whaling base during early years of European economic interest in the east coast of Murihiku around 1840.
The Otago Settlement, sponsored via the Free Church of Scotland, materialised in 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock on the Firth of Clyde -- the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing. Captain William Cargill, a veteran of the Peninsular War, served as the colony's first leader: Otago citizens subsequently elected him to the office of Superintendent.
Initial settlement concentrated on port and city, then expanded, notably to the south-west where the fertile Taieri Plains offered good farmland. The colony divided itself into two counties named for the Scottish independence heroes Wallace and Bruce.
The 1860s saw rapid commercial expansion after Gabriel Read discovered gold at Gabriels Gully near Lawrence and a gold rush ensued. Veterans of goldfields in California and Australia, plus many other fortune-seekers from Europe, North America and China poured into the then Province of Otago, swamping its Scottish Presbyterian character. Further gold discoveries at Clyde and on the Arrow River round Arrowtown led to a boom, and Otago became for a period the cultural and economic centre of New Zealand, if not of Australasia. New Zealand's first daily newspaper, the Otago Daily Times, originally edited by Julius Vogel, dates from this period.
The Province of Southland separated from Otago and set up its own Provincial Council at Invercargill in 1861. After difficulties, it was reabsorbed in 1870, but for local government is now considered a separate region.
Provincial government in New Zealand ceased in 1876, and the national limelight gradually shifted northwards.
Major centres include: Dunedin, Oamaru and Balclutha.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Otago."

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Commercial Usage: OTAGO

Domain	Title
Books	Gold trails of Otago; being a traveller's guide to the gold fields of Otago, including an abbreviated account of the methods employed in the goldfields, and providing valuable instruction for the intending prospector in the subtle art of winning the preci (reference) Heart of the desert : a history of the Cromwell and Bannockburn districts of Central Otago (reference) Modern and relict sedimentation on the South Otago continental shelf, New Zealand (reference) (more book examples)
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Digital Photo Gallery: OTAGO

"Moreaki" by Michele Falzone
Commentary: "Fun on Moreaki Boulder - Otago Region, New Zealand."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: OTAGO

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	New Zealand	Other major newspapers are The Dominion (Wellington - 71,090) and the Evening Post (Wellington - 56,500), The Waikato Times (Hamilton - 41,230), The Press (Christchurch - 100,500), and the Otago Daily Times (Dunedin - 46,010). There are two national Sunday newspapers, the Sunday Star Times (circulation 195,000) and the Sunday News (circulation 110,000). (references)
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Usage Frequency: OTAGO

"OTAGO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "OTAGO" is used about 40 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)	50%	20	78,262
Noun (singular)	50%	20	78,262
Total	100.00%	40	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: OTAGO

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
accountant otago	11
otago polytechnic	10
gastroenterology otago	4
dunedin otago university	3
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Derivations: OTAGO

Derivations
	Words containing "OTAGO": protagonist, protagonists. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: OTAGO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-o-o-t"
	-1 letter: goat, toga.
	-2 letters: ago, gat, goa, goo, got, oat, oot, tag, tao, tog, too.
	-3 letters: ag, at, go, ta, to.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-o-o-t"
	+1 letter: agorot, galoot.
	+2 letters: agoroth, footage, galloot, galoots, octagon, rootage.
	+3 letters: autogiro, autogyro, footages, footgear, galloots, goalpost, golgotha, longboat, obligato, octagons, oogamete, rogation, rogatory, rootages, tabooing, toboggan, tomogram, vagotomy.
	+4 letters: aetiology, anthology, apologist, astrology, autogiros, autogyros, cognation, contagion, floodgate, footgears, gastropod, geobotany, glossator, goalmouth, goalposts, golgothas, grassroot, halogeton, homograft, longboats, mortgagor, obbligato, obligatos, octagonal, oogametes, ozonating, pathology, photogram, prorogate, ratooning, rogations, scatology, tattooing, tautology, toboggans, tomograms, vagotonia, vagotonic.
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