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  2. Unused New York City Subway service labels - Wikipedia

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    Prior to May 1985, the B Division used two-letter combinations to indicate differing variations of similar services, but these were phased out in favor of single-letter designators. [ 1 ] The letters H, K, and V can be seen on the rollsigns of some older model subway cars , with colors paired to the last primary trunk line they were assigned to.

  3. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...

  4. List of words with the suffix -ology - Wikipedia

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    The ology ending is a combination of the letter o plus logy in which the letter o is used as an interconsonantal letter which, for phonological reasons, precedes the morpheme suffix logy. [1] Logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logia). [2]

  5. List of New York City Subway lines - Wikipedia

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    IRT White Plains Road Line (2 and 5 trains) from south of Wakefield–241st Street to east of Third Avenue–149th Street; IRT Lenox Avenue Line (2 and 3 trains) at 135th Street – center track is not usable in revenue service; IRT Jerome Avenue Line (4 train) – entire line, except for Woodlawn; IRT Dyre Avenue Line (5 train) – entire line

  6. New York City Subway nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the IRT labels, the IND letters no longer follow the original pattern; the uptown branches of the B and C services have been switched via a complex process that involved the former AA eventually becoming the C and the B moving to the Concourse Line. Again, major changes have been made at the Brooklyn end (and in downtown Manhattan), but ...

  7. Independent Subway System - Wikipedia

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    It became known as the IND after unification of the subway lines in 1940; the name IND was assigned to match the three-letter initialisms that the IRT and BMT used. [ 1 ] The first IND line was the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan , opened on September 10, 1932; for a while the whole system was colloquially known as the Eighth Avenue Subway .

  8. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  9. Interborough Rapid Transit Company - Wikipedia

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    The IRT Powerhouse An old IRT sign remains at Wall Street station.. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. [2]