Consecutive Roman numerals.Sir Jeremy Morse Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse (* December 10 1928[1]), known as Sir Jeremy Morse, was Chancellor of Bristol University between 1989 and 2003 before being succeeded by the Baroness Hale of Richmond[2] and was chairman of Lloyds Bank[3]. replies to the May Kickshaw item regarding consecutive Roman numerals Roman numerals System of representing numbers devised by the ancient Romans. The numbers are formed by combinations of the symbols I, V, X, L, C, D, and M, standing, respectively, for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1,000 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. in surnames: "I find no other names with 5 different Roman numerals, but there are 5 making a Roman number in the quartet McClinchy, McClinstock, McClintock, McClinton (MCCLI = 1251) and, if IC is allowed for 99, in McDicken (MCDIC = 1499). Turning to words, one needs a hyphen hyphen: see punctuation. to show 5 different, as in MILD-CURED (in the OED OED abbr. Oxford English Dictionary Noun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary ), while 5 making a number occur in ACCLIVITY (CCLIV = 254). A jumble of 8 is found in BACILLICIDE and 10 in the rare MILLIMILLINARY (in the OED). A search of Chambers yields the following list of 68 words containing different Roman numerals from 1 to 2051. Can you add to the list? 1 I 2 SKIING 4 IVY 5 VAN 6 VIE 7 SILVIINE 9 SIX 10 OX 11 AXIS 12 TAXIING 14 REFLEXIVE 15 SEXVALENT 19 MAXIXE 40 AXLE 41 OXLIP 50 LA 51 LIE 52 NAUPLII 54 LIVE 55 SOLVE 56 PELVIC 57 SYLVIINE 59 HELIX 60 CALX 90 EXCEL 91 EXCITE 100 CAB 101 ACID 104 CIVET 150 CLAN 151 CLIP 154 PROCLIVITY 200 OCCUR 201 ACCIDENT 204 BACCIVOROUS 250 ACCLAIM 251 ACCLIMATISE 254 ACCLIVITY 500 DO 501 DIE 502 RADII 504 DIVE 505 ADVENT 506 ADVICE 509 RADIX 550 IDLE 551 IDLING 600 MADCAP 650 HEADCLOTH 900 ACME 901 ACMITE 1000 ME 1001 MINE 1002 GASTROCNEMII 1004 SEMIVOWEL 1005 DUUMVIR 1006 TRIUMVIR 1009 MIX 1050 DIMLY 1051 GREMLIN 1100 ARMCHAIR 1500 HUMDRUM 1501 HUMDINGER 2000 DUMMY 2001 COMMIT 2009 COMMIXTURE 2050 BUMMLE 2051 BUMMLING DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses MORICE Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the principal city of the Iowa City, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses Johnson and Washington counties. |
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