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February 2
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February 3
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- Plurals of English nouns ending in "i" [?]
- Whose father?
- Classification of sentence
- French words entering English
- "Subject - Verb - Object" - and exceptions
- Romanization of Cyrillic
- Skirting the issue, unwillingness to ask for something directly.
February 4
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- span
- Is there a term for words that exist almost solely in certain phrases?
- Ambiguous abbreviations
- Spanish nasals and [ŋ]
- Does the city of Urbino have an adjective in English?
February 5
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February 6
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- Could you please have a look at this text in German?
- "Standard" languages in fantasy settings
- French question: Sans versus Cent
February 7
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February 8
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- Treaty of Portsmouth places
- Agreement with plural nouns treated as singular?
- Are there any better words for "OCR'ing" and "combining OCR-result and immage"?
- undocumented hand gesture?
- Plural of Mercedes-Benz?
- Shi Jingtang's father
February 9
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February 10
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- Coat of arms of Paray-Vieille-Poste
- no less than vs not less than
- Latin help again please
- English language: - there's a word for this, but I can't recall it
- Of all the sentences in all the encyclopedias in all the world, the period walks out of mine.
- arabic we the people
February 11
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- English V2?
- Is there a verb form of "appellation" meaning "to name"?
- Please help with this sentence structure OR How can we make this sound better?
February 12
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February 13
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- Translation of a long Latin sepulchral inscription
- what is the high-falutin' version (meaning) of the word "precious"?
- Arabic: Habibi / habibti
- Latin sexual verb
- Translation of 巨蜂葡萄
February 14
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February 15
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- Derivative nouns & Uncountable nouns.
- Dutch and Farsi help
- Door number three?
- Ambiguity in Vietnamese
February 16
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February 17
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- Just out of interest...
- French "billion"
- Please remember not to forget
- Bahasa Indonesia help
- Is there anything wrong with this sentence?
- Grammar tool to supplement spell checker?
- "Debaser" (Pixies song) title sound file request for Wikipédia
- First language in the history of human civilization
- Promentorium tremendum = ?
February 18
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February 19
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- Stop series - aspirated/breathy/modal?
- French
- Languages in The Eagle
- piano ripple
- Help writing Urdu script
- Word 'crisis' in Chinese
- In what language does one say: to complain "from" somebody, instead of: to complain "about" somebody ?
February 20
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February 21
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- Groups of words built the same way but from different source languages
- Definition
- Translation of a German book title
- The word "Data" and plurals
- Imply vs infer?
- 'Immersion' in a submarine simulation
- "of" vs. "'s"
- "Learnable" ... ?!
February 22
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- Taught vs. learned
- Translation from French
- English translation from columns in Caphernaum
- Arabic help
- Term for skepticism towards oneself
- Pronouncing Boston if you are from Boston, daughter in England
- Can you learn a language with multimedia packages...
- Innan vs. före
February 23
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- Seasonal colouration
- Skočná and sousedská
- Desert's son in Arabic
- Punctuation after italics
- Translation of Japanese term into English
February 24
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- Québécois or Gaspésie expression
- Rhotacism among native speakers of Spanish
- English for Chinese word 干爹
- Word for 24-hour period
- Grammar - "without me having to"
February 25
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February 26
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February 27
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- Cyrillic text help
- "A discussion that resulted in his being sanctioned."
- Hanzi and pinyin for Ms Wenwen Han please!
- Mnemonic for semantics of "to trade A for B"
- Pawn to Rook Seven?
- Ol Chiki and Avesta fonts
- A gang of fifty strong?
- Polish translation needed
- Latin translation
- Wrinkly grandmother...