Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2024

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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 1

1. A riddle that (only?) native speakers can solve.

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 4

1. Could tantrum be related to tantra, or do they only happen to be similar?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 5

1. Latin inscription
2. BOTs in singular

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 6

1. What is a cat??
2. Is this accepted grammar?

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 8

1. Two forms of Arabic location

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 11

1. Antivaxer
2. A bad-faith ultimatum?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 13

1. Motion vs Movement

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 14

1. What is the best illustrative collage for writing systems?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 16

1. Rod, line and sinker

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 17

1. German genitive of personal names

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 18

1. How insulting is "weird"?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 19

1. Date and time writing question

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 20

1. Orthography question

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 21

1. Distinguishing lowercase omicron from o

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 22

1. Why do some people say "called as" instead of "called"?
2. Economic and Management Sciences
3. Re: Amphitryon

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 23

1. Why does arabic ba have a dot? What is it a variant of?

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 24

1. Plural of walrus?
2. pronunciation of element 107 in Polish

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 25

1. history of the Polish element names
2. Hooked by a bad review
3. Questions

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 26

1. 5th–8th place

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 27

1. As it were
2. How does a tonal language get along with songs? Doesn't their music change the lexical tones, which actually influence the meaning of words?
3. Rhyming slang

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 28

1. Corvuso - The name comes from an Indian word that means "Gathering place for crows."