Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2020

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January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 2

1. Ges. gesch.

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 3

1. Windmills

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 4

1. The oo vowel

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 5

1. Black Toon

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 9

1. It's cold drinks signs in Japan

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 10

1. grammatical aspect of "the more...,the more..."

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 11

1. Wonka's Latin

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 12

1. Yakut/Sakha transliteration/transcription
2. La milie, de Borabora
3. dans la partie la moins noble de son individu
4. Force from

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 15

1. Pedantic correctness vs. commonsense phraseology

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 16

1. French translation
2. Did the word "amendment" historically mean "any change for the better" or did it have a more limited meaning?

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 17

1. Promiscuous and loose women
2. Whenever
3. pronounce "higham"
4. "Sono" in Italian.
5. Need help citing a reference

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 18

1. Old useful geography encyclopedia?

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 22

1. The second o in control

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 25

1. Translation of Chinese from Alchemical Source
2. Spanish dialects

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 26

1. Do the words miner and myna have any realation.

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 27

1. Is there a term for excluding "The" when alphabetically indexing things?
2. lugbara

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 28

1. Sophomore

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 29

1. Biographies of parents with both living and deceased children
2. Omitting articles in English text
3. The phantom The
4. Pronunciation of ʻokina
5. Von der Leyen and Eliot
6. English pronunciation of qaf and kaf

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 30

1. need help translating Kanji album cover
2. Klingon and Kazakh

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 January 31

1. Yakut/Sakha (second try)
2. Type of speech (actually a type of spelling)