Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2024

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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 1

1. Kahulla
2. Tocharian /n/

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 2

1. What word is Eeyore misremembering?
2. Another questions

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 3

1. Mo(i)ses
2. Confusing phrase in 1984

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 5

1. Does anyone know what this charcter is?

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 6

1. Japanese

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 7

1. Why was English more wordy the further in the past?
2. raisu in Japanese

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 8

1. Ligier?

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 9

1. Questions

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 10

1. Old word pronouncer

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 11

1. Pronunciation questions

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 13

1. Not to change the subject ...
2. Translation?
3. Do you have in mind any simple example of a useful English word, being both a noun and an adjective and a verb?
4. Questions again

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 15

1. Have never vs. never have
2. Interchange of /ɪks/ and /ɛks/, while pronouncing the prefix (initial) "ex" of English words.

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 17

1. mercurial breasted
2. Tobacco smoke enema
3. Letter usage

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 19

1. Why do these characters sound so different?
2. Appositive pronoun cases
3. Translation of a Ukrainian memorial plaque, please?

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 23

1. James is having an effect on the teacher since Monday.

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 24

1. Relative prosodic length of a long vowel in Arabic: 2x or 3x a short vowel?

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 25

1. Ducks in a row

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 26

1. Wordplay type?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 29

1. "Moon" in Slavic languages

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 30

1. two 'k's
2. Exploring "nuclear" and the fact that the word is not "nucular"