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Date "IPSWICH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ipswich A corruption of Gypes-wick, the town on the river "Gyppen," now called the Orwell. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ipswich is a town located in Essex County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 4,161.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ipswich is a town located in Essex County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 12,987.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ipswich is a town 45 minutes drive from the capital of Queensland, Brisbane, and 60 minutes from the Gold Coast.
It is the site of the Royal Australian Air Force - Amberly.
It is also home to a satellite campus of the University of Queensland.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It was successively a Stone age, Iron age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement known as "Gippeswic".
King John granted it its first charter in 1200, and in the next four centuries it made a living trading Suffolk cloth with the Continent.
Ipswich is still a flourishing port today, handling several million tons of cargo each year.
The Ipswich Museum houses replicas of the Mildenhall treasure and the Sutton Hoo treasure, as well as Saxon weapons and jewellery.
Tolly Cobbold Brewery, built in the 19th century and rebuilt 1894-1896, is one of the finest Victorian breweries in Britain. There has been a Cobbold Brewery in the town since 1746. Felix Thornley Cobbold presented Christchurch Mansion to the town in 1896
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the son of a butcher, was born in Ipswich in about 1475. He founded a college in the town in 1528.
In 1555, the Ipswich Martyrs were burnt at the stake for their Protestant beliefs.
From 1611 to 1634 Ipswich was a major centre for emigration to New England. This was organised by the Town Lecturer, Samual Ward. His brother Nathaniel Ward was first minister of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
The painters John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough lived and worked in Ipswich. In 1835, Charles Dickens stayed in Ipswich and used it as a setting for scenes in his novel The Pickwick Papers. In ca. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer satirised the merchants of Ipswich in the Canterbury Tales.
The world's first lawnmower was produced in Ipswich in 1832. (From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)External links
Ipswich, England
Ipswich, South Dakota
Geography
Ipswich is located at 45°26'42" North, 99°1'49" West (45.445009, -99.030239)1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²). 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 943 people, 404 households, and 254 families residing in the city. The population density is 277.9/km² (719.3/mi²). There are 440 housing units at an average density of 129.7/km² (335.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.52% White, 0.21% African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 0.42% from two or more races. 0.64% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 404 households out of which 29.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% are married couples living together, 7.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 37.1% are non-families. 34.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 20.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.32 and the average family size is 3.01.
In the city the population is spread out with 27.4% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 23.4% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 24.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 92.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $33,073, and the median income for a family is $40,598. Males have a median income of $30,268 versus $16,413 for females. The per capita income for the city is $19,890. 8.7% of the population and 6.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 6.2% are under the age of 18 and 19.2% are 65 or older.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ipswich."
Crosswords: IPSWICH |
| Specialty definitions using "IPSWICH": British Telecom Research Laboratories. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | East of Ipswich (1987) | |
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 | Way in which cod gill-nets are set for underrunning In Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts From Bulletin U.S. Fish Commission, Vol. I, drawing by Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Underrunning cod gill-nets in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Torching at night for spurling or small herring in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts From sketch by J. S. Ryder. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Woolen Manufactory and Bridge, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Flower garden, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ipswich, South Dakota. Village priest riding a bicycle to town. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "IPSWICH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.76% of the time. "IPSWICH" is used about 1,239 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) | 99.76% | 1,236 | 6,318 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,239 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Ipswich Bancshares |
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1. Ipswich, MA (CDP, FIPS 32275) 2. Ipswich, SD (city, FIPS 31860) |
Expression using "IPSWICH": New Ipswich. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "IPSWICH": ipswich-based, ipswich-born, Ipswich-leeds. | |
Ending with "IPSWICH": Nunes-by-ipswich. | |
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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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"IPSWICH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elswich, ipwich, Ispwich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-p-s-w" | |
-2 letters: chips, whips. | |
-3 letters: chip, chis, hips, ichs, iwis, phis, pics, pish, ship, spic, whip, wich, wish, wisp. | |
-4 letters: chi, cis, hic, hip, his, ich, phi, pic, pis, psi, sic, sip, wis. | |
-5 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-p-s-w" | |
+3 letters: whipstitch. | |
+5 letters: shipwrecking, whipstitched, whipstitches. | |
| 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. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .--. ... .--. .. -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01010000 01010011 01010111 01001001 01000011 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I P S W I C H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0050 0053 0057 0049 0043 0048 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43505357433742 |
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