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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 1

  1. Dynamics vs. tempo
  2. Old vs. young and new
  3. Profundicate
  4. Linguistic skeuomorphism
  5. Horrible posh accent

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 2

  1. "Age" versus "aged"
  2. What do I call her?

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 3

  1. odd usage of the phrase 'as well'
  2. "In all those fields, supportive evidence were to be found/ were found/ have been found".
  3. "your first parlay"
  4. MS Word changed short hyphen to long hyphen
  5. Word for married woman's male sex partner outside of marriage?

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 4

  1. corrective discipline
  2. "Escalation" in management
  3. Kruti Dev Font Licensing
  4. Subjunctive
  5. Ancient Egyptian pronounciation
  6. Traps in action

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 5

  1. "The Assyrian", "The Hun", etc

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 6

  1. "Canadian-based" or "Canada-based"?
  2. present perfect tense
  3. Apostrophe s
  4. Curse words against the Virgin Mary in English?

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 7

  1. Chinese exonym for the American continent
  2. Luau in British English

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 8

  1. Honesty demands that...
  2. English transcription

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 9

  1. Demonym - Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Scotsman, etc.
  2. How is "Atlas V" pronounced predominantly in the Space Community?
  3. Case Assignment in Fused Relatives Cross-Linguistically

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 10

  1. Bad, wicked, decadent - words with definitions and uses that mean the opposite of the primary definition
  2. etymology of 'normal' as related to army study in Tennessee circa 1913-15
  3. The government will announce today ...

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 11

  1. Japanese help: Students at the Japanese School of Istanbul

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 12

  1. multiscript collaboration about a thusand year old perfect magic square written in :en:Gurmukhi numerals

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 14

  1. "Ya ponyo"
  2. Los Angeles abbreviation

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 15

  1. What is the correct wording? Me or I?
  2. By default

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 16

  1. Genitive apostrophe

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 18

  1. Steve Jobs and Apple

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 19

  1. Korean: "노닐던"
  2. Need help deciphering banking jargon

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 20

  1. Mongolian pronunciation of Оюу Толгой
  2. "Good people" just mean "citizens"?
  3. Nigerian English
  4. Pun lost in translation in "Danger: Diabolik"?

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 21

  1. Elder / Eldest / Older / Oldest

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 22

  1. What is the correct wording? Me or I?
  2. How to translate this phrase into Latin?

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 23

  1. Can write and read but can't speak the language

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 24

  1. Compare: and vs with
  2. "Dog" and "nine"
  3. Term for choosing a term that sounds more palatable to an audience?

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 25

  1. Any ambiguity in "Have you lived in the UK for 5 years ... ?"  ?
  2. Soft sign and palatalisation in Russian
  3. Peggy is diminutive of Margaret?
  4. Slovenian question
  5. replacing a word with its initial (e.g. "F word")
  6. Request for translation from Spanish

August 26

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  1. Linguistic history of China

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 29

  1. Out-and-out
  2. Transliteration of French into Hebrew

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 30

  1. Life hack?

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 August 31

  1. Antiquated Superlatives for Victorian-style poster.
  2. How to write a numerical expression in words
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