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October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 2

  1. Ummm...why is October called October?
  2. To bollock someone
  3. How can Chinese people understand Japaneses Kanji?
  4. Multiple adjectival morphemes
  5. Arguendo
  6. Famous phrases in fictional languages sought
  7. Check this sentence

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 3

  1. Question about British apartment numbering
  2. Capitalization of "van" as part of surname
  3. Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact movie in Japanese
  4. Any Romance languages that historically shifted Latin's "f" and/or "b" to "h" or something like that?

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 4

  1. almost

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 5

  1. Sanskrit help
  2. One
  3. language
  4. Scientific Name Origins
  5. List By Phonemes (or amount of phonemes)
  6. Unicode for Chinese
  7. St Someone vs St. Someone
  8. Ashansu Translation

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 6

  1. What is the Japanese character in this image?
  2. Inthronization or enthronement?
  3. жить и не умереть/умирать

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 7

  1. "in the name of public order"
  2. Correctness in English grammar?
  3. Second to the last, third to the last, fourth to the last...
  4. Is there a Wheelock's English?

October 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 8

  1. §§, MSS, ff, etc. etc.
  2. Cousin's Son
  3. passive voice correct use

October 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 9

  1. The difference between physics and physiology - etymologically
  2. Influence of Cantonese
  3. Is Hutterite German called Low German?

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 10

  1. Could we know when or how the convert of the meaning of the Greek word "physis" be done?
  2. collecting songs with nonsense syllables
  3. Modern French words derived from Old French nominative?

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 11

  1. English s and French s
  2. Question about Dutch transliteration - Paul Haarhuis
  3. Transfer of question

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 12

  1. Gruppenflexion
  2. German translation needed urgently

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 13

  1. What do you say to someone as a polite greeting at 4:00 AM in the morning, before the sunrise, and the person hasn't had a night's sleep?
  2. Is there a single English word in common use (not a coinage) that means female gangster or mobster?
  3. What does this mean in Chinese, and how do I pronounce it?
  4. Specific terms for males instead of generic terms
  5. Is there a modal adverb which indicates a probability of at least 50%?

October 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 14

  1. Is Afrikaans useful to learn?
  2. Using "extends" for "is extended"
  3. Did the English language have a writing system or script prior to the Latin alphabet?

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 15

  1. American knowledge of Shakespeare
  2. Meaning of to roger and to dodger in the phrase roger dodger?
  3. Will to power

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 17

  1. Is there something rude about "Yandrisovitz"?
  2. Plural Posessive of phrases of compound nouns with head first?
  3. Very Complicated Family

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 18

  1. 'Full stop' Confusion
  2. 'Numeric' letter(s) conversion to 'Alphabetic' words
  3. 'Participle' Confusion
  4. 12th century Arabic constellation
  5. Contemporary assessment of Rabindranath Tagore by western media and literary critics

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 19

  1. Line breaks in dates
  2. Italian language question
  3. "Transliteration"
  4. What is the origin of the name Sierra Leone?
  5. Word for "internationally socioeconomic"
  6. IPA symbol
  7. New old words

October 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 20

  1. How do you pronounce "propanol" and "propanal"?
  2. What is the correct word? Ensemble.
  3. To be or not to be.....

October 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 21

  1. Etymology of Ebola
  2. Opposite of 'holistic'
  3. resources for IPA?
  4. City centre
  5. Chinese language question

October 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 22

  1. How to pronounce the word Wayland in American English
  2. Short form of newspaper name
  3. what does "inline" and "online" mean?
  4. Another Relative Question
  5. The dreaded lurgi seems to have mutated

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 23

  1. Word Query
  2. Sentence filling
  3. Indo-European neuter
  4. Corporate jargon

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 24

  1. V & W

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 25

  1. Why are "who" and "where" swapped in German?
  2. French p

October 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 26

  1. Besides in English, where does PIE *w survive as [w] in any modern Indo-European language?
  2. Meaning of "wilderness variation"
  3. Indian names with "shit"

October 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 27

  1. To comma or not to comma
  2. Strange Translation (presumably from Hausa)
  3. Word Query 2
  4. Sentence correction
  5. Huzur
  6. '...'
  7. Soviet Rally Cry

October 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 28

  1. près des matières incandescentes
  2. Request for transcription of Korean text

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 29

  1. ‘
  2. Postnominal determiner in English
  3. Volunteers required
  4. Alveolar ridge vs. alveolar process

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 30

  1. Chinese (?) translation request
  2. Any mistakes in the Korean in this image?
  3. ø versus œ (ö) in Swedish IPA

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 October 31

  1. Sentence understanding problem
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