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  2. Excelsior (Longfellow) - Wikipedia

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    Longfellow explained the repeated title as from the Latin, Scopus meus excelsior est ("my goal is higher"). [2] Biographer Charles Calhoun suggested the Alpine setting was an autobiographical reference to the poet's then-unsuccessful wooing of Frances Appleton, daughter of industrialist Nathan Appleton .

  3. List of U.S. state and territory mottos - Wikipedia

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    Latin: 1887 [N 8] [45] New York: Excelsior: Ever upward Latin: 1778 [46] North Carolina: Esse quam videri: To be, rather than to seem Latin: 1893 [47] North Dakota: Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable — English January 3, 1863 [48] [49] Serit ut alteri saeclo prosit: One sows for the benefit of another age Latin: March 11 ...

  4. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  5. List of Latin-script alphabets - Wikipedia

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    The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.

  6. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...

  7. Hebdomada Aenigmatum - Wikipedia

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    Latin crosswords have been the subject of several conferences at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. [ 14 ] Both Hebdomada Aenigmatum and Onomata Kechiasmena are included in a memorandum of understanding with the Italian Ministry of Education to promote the use of Latin and Greek crosswords as a tool to facilitate learning ancient languages.

  8. 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 or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...