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NICE AS NINEPENCE

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Nice as Ninepence A corruption of "Nice as nine-pins." In the game of nine-pins, the "men" are set in three rows with the utmost exactitude or nicety. Nine-pence is an Irish shilling of 1561. (See Ninepence .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: NICE AS NINEPENCE

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-n-n-p-s"

-4 letters: ninepennies.

-5 letters: ninepences.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NICE AS NINEPENCE


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

4E 49 43 45      41 53      4E 49 4E 45 50 45 4E 43 45

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

        

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

01001110 01001001 01000011 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010011 00100000 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010000 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#67 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#83 &#32 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#80 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0043 0045      0041 0053      004E 0049 004E 0045 0050 0045 004E 0043 0045

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

48433739235532484348395039483739

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