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Literature | Skogan (Henry). A poet in the reign of Henry IV. Justice Shallow says he saw Sir John Falstaff, when he was a boy, "break Skogan's head at the court gate, when he [Sir John] was a crack [child] not thus high." (2 Henry IV., 2.) "Scogan? What was he? Oh, a fine gentleman, and a master of arts Of Henry the Fourth's times, that made disguises For the king's sons, and writ in ballad royal Daintily well." Ben Jonson: The Fortunate Isles (1626). John Skogan. The favourite buffoon of the court of King Edward IV. Scogin's Jests were published by Andrew Borde, a physician, in the reign of Henry VIII. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-k-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: agons, kaons, koans. | |
-2 letters: agon, goas, kaon, koan, koas, nags, naos, nogs, oaks, okas, sago, sang, sank, skag, snag, snog, soak, song. | |
-3 letters: ago, ask, gan, gas, goa, gos, kas, koa, kos, nag, nog, nos, oak, oka, ons, sag, ska, son. | |
-4 letters: ag, an, as, go, ka, na, no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-k-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: kalongs, soaking. | |
+2 letters: angakoks, bangkoks, goatskin, kampongs, skoaling. | |
+3 letters: forsaking, goatskins, kangaroos, kaoliangs, knotgrass, outasking, resoaking. | |
+4 letters: ankylosing, hopsacking, kurrajongs, mosaicking, outskating, outtasking, presoaking, sjamboking, snowmaking, stockading. | |
+5 letters: antismoking, backgammons, backgrounds, bookmakings, glucokinase, godforsaken, homemakings, hopsackings, knotgrasses, lovemakings, noisemaking, nonspeaking, outspeaking, oversoaking, overtasking, postmarking, stocktaking, toolmakings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4B 4F 47 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- --- --. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001011 01001111 01000111 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S K O G A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004B 004F 0047 0041 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)534549413548 |
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