DISMAL DITTY

  

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DISMAL DITTY

Specialty Definition: DISMAL DITTY

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Slang in 1811

DISMAL DITTY. The psalm sung by the felons at the gallows, just before they are turned off. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DISMAL DITTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-i-l-m-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: dialist, idylist, middays, miladis, misdial, mislaid, mistily, staidly, tastily, timidly.

-5 letters: admits, amidst, daylit, dimity, dismal, dismay, distal, distil, iliads, limits, lyttas, midday, miladi, milady, misadd, misdid, mislay, mislit, saiyid, sialid, smalti, tiddly, tidily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DISMAL DITTY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 53 4D 41 4C      44 49 54 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01001101 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000100 01001001 01010100 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#77 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 004D 0041 004C      0044 0049 0054 0054 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38435347354623843545459

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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