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| 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 |
BMBW | English | BundesMinisterium fuer Bildung und Wissenschaft | Computer - (org.) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Proper Noun Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-m-w" | |
+4 letters: Hobsbawm, Zimbabwe. | |
+5 letters: Rumblebow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4D 42 57 |
| 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)01000010 01001101 01000010 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B M B W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004D 0042 0057 |
| 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)36473657 |
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