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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 1

  1. What is the "s" of third person singular verbs called in English grammar terminology?

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 2

  1. Lobby broom

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 4

  1. So

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 6

  1. Decriminalisation of suicide and the continued use of "commit"
  2. most unlikely superstar celebrity
  3. Proserinum -detecting of a medication name etymology

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 7

  1. Drama queen
  2. A (Preferably popular) English bible translation, broken down into parts of speech?
  3. Bricken

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 9

  1. Demonym
  2. The People have spoken, the bastards
  3. Š-L-M in Latin
  4. Translation for "bei jdm landen"

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 12

  1. Latin letters in Greek
  2. Over... over you

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 13

  1. Verbing weirds the language

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 14

  1. debut novel vs first novel
  2. Transliteration from latin alphabet to cyrillic Alphanet
  3. "Navigate necesse est, vivere non"

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 15

  1. How many grammar rules are needed for speaking a language?

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 16

  1. Pound sign as letter
  2. Name that rhetorical technique

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 17

  1. twist
  2. Kun readings for Korean place names

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 18

  1. "The first since..."

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 19

  1. German

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 20

  1. Kyrgyz or Kirghiz ?
  2. "Feature" as a verb

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 21

  1. Etymology of the Persian word peri
  2. Continuity between the speakers of PIE of the 5th-4th millenium BC and the Scythians of the 1st millenium BC?

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 23

  1. Potable
  2. What is this game called?

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 24

  1. Name of a language

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 25

  1. The Yanks are coming
  2. The words "ruthless" and "ruth"
  3. Word for "Orphan" in Farsi

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 26

  1. Korean ‘hyeong’ among women
  2. "One Fewer" or "One Less"?

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 27

  1. Korean "-ni"

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 28

  1. British English and American English philatelic terms
  2. Nato phonetic alphabet symbols

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 29

  1. Each sauce / all sauces
  2. Usally a writer would use a/an ....tone for a nwespaper
  3. An opportunity to improve the Coat of arms of Riga with this source.
  4. Plural of Manx

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 30

  1. Illegal, irregular