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Date "HERTFORD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
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Literature | Hertford (Anglo-Saxon, heort-ford, the hart's ford). The arms of the city are "a hart couchant in water." Hertford, invoked by Thomson in his Spring, was Frances Thynne, who married Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, afterwards Duke of Somerset. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is in the East Hertfordshire district of that county. It has a population today of about 24,000.
The rivers Rib, Beane and Mimram meet with the River Lea, at Hertford to flow south toward the Thames.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hertford."
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| "HERTFORD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HERTFORD" is used about 84 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) | 100% | 84 | 36,109 |
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1. Hertford, NC (town, FIPS 30900) |
Expression using "HERTFORD": Hertford County. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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"HERTFORD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hetford. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-h-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: frothed. | |
-2 letters: dehort, rhetor. | |
-3 letters: doeth, doter, fetor, forte, forth, frore, froth, horde, ofter, order, other, retro, throe, trode. | |
-4 letters: deft, doer, dore, dorr, dote, doth, feod, ford, fore, fort, fret, froe, heft, herd, hero, hoed, hoer, ohed, redo, reft, rode, rote, thro, toed, tore, torr, tref, trod. | |
-5 letters: doe, dor, dot, edh, eft, err. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-h-o-r-r-t" | |
+3 letters: forgathered. | |
+4 letters: foregathered, thermoformed. | |
+5 letters: foreshortened, rutherfordium, thenceforward. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 52 54 46 4F 52 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-. - ..-. --- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01010010 01010100 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E R T F O R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0052 0054 0046 004F 0052 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4239525440495238 |
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