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Crosswords: IMHO |
| Specialty definitions using "IMHO": IMAO, IMNSHO. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is often said (half jokingly) that when 'IMHO' appears, it is a sign that the writer has an overly high opinion of themselves, because nobody who truly was humble would use the word to describe themselves.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "IMHO."
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | IMHO // abbrev. [from SF fandom via Usenet; abbreviation for `In My Humble Opinion'] "IMHO, mixed-case C names should be avoided, as mistyping something in the wrong case can cause hard-to-detect errors -- and they look too Pascalish anyhow." Also seen in variant forms such as IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion). Source: Jargon File. |
Slang | Phrase. Source: Unknown. Definition: In My Humble Opinion. Context: Used when someone wants to express their opinion, even if it differs from another's opinion. Social Source: Internet chat room users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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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 |
IMHO | English | In My Humble Opinion | Computer - (slang, Usenet, IRC) |
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| "IMHO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "IMHO" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | 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 |
imho | 31 |
faq imho | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "IMHO": millimho. (additional references) | |
Words containing "IMHO": millimhos, victimhood, victimhoods. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-m-o" | |
-1 letter: him, mho, ohm. | |
-2 letters: hi, hm, ho, mi, mo, oh, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-m-o" | |
+1 letter: ohmic. | |
+2 letters: hemoid, holism, holmic, homier, homily, homing, hominy, modish, mohair, monish, mopish, mythoi, rhombi, whilom. | |
+3 letters: bimorph, bioherm, bohemia, bohrium, chamiso, chamois, chamoix, chrisom, chromic, dimorph, echoism, ethmoid, gnomish, haemoid, halidom, heirdom, hemiola, heroism, hoboism, holisms, holmium, homiest, homines, hominid, humidor, mahonia, manihot, microhm, mikvoth, misshod, mobbish, mochila, mohairs, mohalim, mohelim, monkish, moonish, moorish, morphia, morphic, morphin, moshing, mothier, oghamic, omphali, rhizoma, rhizome, rhodium, rhombic, rompish, shamois, sophism, thorium, thrombi, timothy, wholism, wormish. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 48 4F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .... --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01001000 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M H O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0048 004F |
| 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)43474249 |
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