Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2023

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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 1

1. German May Day
2. Ivan with an "ee" or "ai"

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 2

1. Icelandic, Esperanto
2. Understanding a foreign language text
3. Envelope vs. ensemble

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 3

1. English verbs
2. Below par

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 5

1. Get 'a' divorce
2. Cartellverband
3. Why does Sunday have a special name in Chinese?

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 7

1. A rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 9

1. Russian propaganda lessons
2. Questions
3. Open central unrounced vowel

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 11

1. dif [Balkan Slavic langs]
2. American Umlaut

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 12

1. Redundancy problem
2. "Pig's feet" vs. "pig feet", etc.

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 13

1. Falling diphthongs in Romance languages
2. Does Rhoticity still exist in Welsh English?

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 15

1. Different words for laughing and crying
2. Embryo and fetus in Greek
3. A few questions

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 16

1. Fictional Latin Footnote

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 18

1. It's I or It's me??

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 20

1. Use of K for C
2. When are halves plural, and why?
3. "Hurrah" stays the same; "hurray" becomes "hooray"
4. Some questions
5. "scarce" pronounced with the vowel of "air"

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 21

1. Abandoned

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 22

1. Pronouns with 2 possible referents
2. Could a Norwegian speaker please translate eMMa's newest music video into English? Title: Over Deg
3. Translation of Latin text
4. Swedish Who's Who
5. Possessive forms of corps
6. Old chinese

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 23

1. Aren't all languages related to one another?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 24

1. X after X, plural or not?
2. Number questions

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 25

1. "Figuratively" (and "temporarily" in GA/RP and "laboratory" in GA and "militarily" in RP/UK and "necessarily" in RP), the stress being on the first syllable out of five (at least). Does English have any other such word?

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 26

1. Vowel system

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 27

1. Minor but puzzling naming
2. mature

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 28

1. Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre
2. English language construct where adverb position matters

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 29

1. Vowel questions

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 30

1. Sapphic thoughts
2. Question about assimilation

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 31

1. Did 17th and 18th-century British English (Early Modern and Modern English) sound similar to West Country English, the Lancashire dialect, or the Northumbrian dialect?