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Date "ALFORD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ALFORD | English | Appalachian Laboratories for Occupational Respiratory Diseases | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ALFORD |
| Specialty definitions using "ALFORD": Queen's English. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Alford J. Williams, half-length portrait, facing front, hands in coat pockets. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Alford, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "ALFORD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ALFORD" is used about 71 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) | 100% | 71 | 39,674 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ALFORD" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Alford | Last name | 13,000 | 894 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Alford Refrigerated Warehouses, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Alford, FL (town, FIPS 625) |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"ALFORD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aasfjord, Alflora, Allcord, Allford, Asford, Ayleford, Casford, galford, Gawford, llford, Malford, Olford, Qamford. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: flora. | |
-2 letters: fado, fard, farl, faro, foal, fold, fora, ford, lard, load, loaf, lord, orad, oral, road, rolf. | |
-3 letters: ado, arf, dal, dol, dor, fad, far, for, fro, lad, lar, oaf, oar, old, ora, rad, rod. | |
-4 letters: ad, al, ar, do, fa, la, lo, od, of, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: foulard. | |
+2 letters: aardwolf, deflator, falderol, flavored, forbidal, fordable, forelady, foreland, foulards, freeload, landform. | |
+3 letters: broadleaf, dayflower, deflators, dragonfly, falderols, farandole, flavoured, floriated, foolhardy, forbidals, forelands, forwardly, freeloads, frowardly, landforms, malformed, refloated. | |
+4 letters: affordable, affordably, afterworld, confederal, dayflowers, defalcator, defoliator, deformable, farandoles, flashboard, floodwater, floorboard, floribunda, fluoridate, foreladies, forestland, formalised, formalized, formidable, formidably, formulated, freeloaded, freeloader, nonfederal, waterflood. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 46 4F 52 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. ..-. --- .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L F O R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0046 004F 0052 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354640495238 |
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