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March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 2

  1. "Anno Milit." - a Latin alternative to Anno Domini

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 3

  1. Arabic calligraphy forms

March 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 4

  1. British subjunctive
  2. Overseas?

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 5

  1. Rats as snitch.

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 6

  1. Asian languages with the very same word for "chess" and "check"
  2. English derivatives of Greco-Latin feminine -o nouns with -us in genitive
  3. Heart = corona?
  4. Identical words for "poet" and "liar"
  5. Poul (Anderson) pronunciation

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 7

  1. French translation
  2. Italian orthography
  3. Translating Latin chant

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 9

  1. Difference between interlingual homographs and interlexical homographs?

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 10

  1. Latin abbreviation

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 11

  1. Erfahrung vs. Erlebnis

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 12

  1. Language
  2. Speaking obfuscation
  3. Doaitse (Dutch given name)

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 14

  1. Missing the verb for performing a lay
  2. Fixing period locations

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 15

  1. Heart = corona? (March 6)
  2. Pokhara place name meaning

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 16

  1. Better "late" than never?
  2. Singular of Bituriges

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 17

  1. Silent-letter acronyms
  2. Ellipsis
  3. Mining contact info from Japanese site.

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 19

  1. AU English capitalization

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 21

  1. What does this poem mean?

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 23

  1. Coronavirus: why is it called "novel"?
  2. Pronunciation of "Quixote" versus "quixotic"

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 24

  1. Etymology of "Armageddon"
  2. Danish language - word for «nonfree» (of charge)
  3. Iglesia_Maradoniana

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 25

  1. Demonyms ending with -er
  2. Is "person of color" an adjective?
  3. Do companies take the pronoun "it" or "they"?
  4. Right bank

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 March 30

  1. Modesty or reserve or what
  2. Wooder