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PIGEON-ENGLISH

Date "PIGEON-ENGLISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)


Specialty Definition: PIGEON-ENGLISH

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Literature

Pigeon-English or ~~~Pigeon-talk.
Pigeon-talk. A corruption of business-talk. Thus: business, bidginess, bidgin, pidgin, pigeon. A mixture of English, Portuguese, and Chinese, used in business transactions in "The Flowery Empire."
"The traders care nothing for the Chinese language, and are content to carry on their business transactions in a hideous jargon called "pigeon English."- The Times. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: PIGEON-ENGLISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-s"

-3 letters: englishing, plenishing.

-4 letters: elegising, eloigning, gingelies, polishing, shingling, siphoning, sleighing.

-5 letters: eloining, enisling, ensiling, epigones, gingelis, heelings, helpings, hiplines, inhesion, longeing, longings, longship, negliges, neighing, openings, peelings, pensione, phosgene, pignolis, pinholes, sheening, shieling, singeing, singling, sleeping, slinging, speeling, speiling, spieling, splining, spoiling, sponging.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PIGEON-ENGLISH


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

50 49 47 45 4F 4E 2D 45 4E 47 4C 49 53 48

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

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

01010000 01001001 01000111 01000101 01001111 01001110 00101101 01000101 01001110 01000111 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#71 &#69 &#79 &#78 &#45 &#69 &#78 &#71 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 0047 0045 004F 004E 002D 0045 004E 0047 004C 0049 0053 0048

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

5043413949481539484146435342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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