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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 1

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

August 4

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 5

  1. Latin inscription
  2. BOTs in singular

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 6

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

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 8

  1. Two forms of Arabic location

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 11

  1. Antivaxer
  2. A bad-faith ultimatum?

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 13

  1. Motion vs Movement

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 14

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

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 16

  1. Rod, line and sinker

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 17

  1. German genitive of personal names

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 18

  1. How insulting is "weird"?

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 19

  1. Date and time writing question

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 20

  1. Orthography question

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 21

  1. Distinguishing lowercase omicron from o

August 22

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 23

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

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 24

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

August 25

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 26

  1. 5th–8th place

August 27

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 August 28

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