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February 27

Janowska

How is Janowska pronounced in Polish? {{IPAc-en}} isn't used there, and it would help. 149.160.175.36 (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

If you're interested in the Polish (as opposed to the English) pronunciation, {{IPAc-pl}} would do better. The Polish IPA for Janowska is [jaˈnɔfska]; for Obóz Janowski, [ˈɔbus jaˈnɔfskʲi]. I'm not sure why the article is indicating Janowską [jaˈnɔfskɔ̃], which is the accusative case or instrumental case form for Janowska. --Theurgist (talk) 19:06, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Most likely a mistake by someone who didn't know about Polish cases. Corrected. — Kpalion^(talk) 05:42, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Hyphens in compound adjectives composed solely of numbers

There has been disagreement about hyphen use in a TFL blurb that is scheduled to go up on the main page in a few hours. Any help you are able to provide here would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 16:23, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Square brackets with quill

I just added Unicode characters "U+2045 ⁅ LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH QUILL" and "U+2046 ⁆ RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH QUILL" to Bracket, but I have no idea what they are used for. Does anyone know? Maybe non-English or non-European languages? -- Beland (talk) 18:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

The context of the character block where they're included suggests archaic or creative punctuation. AnonMoos (talk) 05:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

It looks like they are used in Sweden at least (see here under "Piggparenteser").--Cam (talk) 05:23, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! -- Beland (talk) 16:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

In case somebody can't read it, it says they're used in dictionaries like the one mention and give the construction in which a word is used. --Kazu89 ^ノート 19:03, 5 March 2014 (UTC)