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DAHMUM

Specialty Definition: DAHMUM

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Dahmum /dah'mum/ n. [Usenet] The material of which protracted flame wars, especially those about operating systems, is composed. Homeomorphic to spam. The term `dahmum' is derived from the name of a militant OS/2 advocate, and originated when an extensively cross-posted OS/2-versus-Linux debate was fed through Dissociated Press. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Anagrams: DAHMUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-m-m-u"

-2 letters: duma, maud.

-3 letters: amu, dah, dam, duh, had, ham, hmm, hum, mad, mud, mum, umm.

-4 letters: ad, ah, am, ha, hm, ma, mm, mu, uh, um.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DAHMUM


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

44 41 48 4D 55 4D

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-    ....    --    ..-    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000100 01000001 01001000 01001101 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#65 &#72 &#77 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0041 0048 004D 0055 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

383542475547

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