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WHIP-DOG DAY

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Whip-dog Day October 18 (St. Luke's Day). Brand tells us that a priest about to celebrate mass on St. Luke's Day, happened to drop the pyx, which was snatched up by a dog, and this was the origin of Whip-dog Day. (Popular Antiquities, ii. 273.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: WHIP-DOG DAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-h-i-o-p-w-y"

-3 letters: giddyap.

-4 letters: dipody, gadoid, giddap.

-5 letters: aphid, dodgy, dowdy, gaddi, gadid, giddy, hoagy, hodad, howdy, hyoid, paddy, pagod, podgy, podia, pyoid, waddy, widdy.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHIP-DOG DAY


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

57 48 49 50 2D 44 4F 47      44 41 59

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

    

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

01010111 01001000 01001001 01010000 00101101 01000100 01001111 01000111 00100000 01000100 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#72 &#73 &#80 &#45 &#68 &#79 &#71 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0048 0049 0050 002D 0044 004F 0047      0044 0041 0059

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

57424350153849412383559

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