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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 1

  1. What is the origin of the word "banya" (sauna)?
  2. English reform spelling
  3. french j'etais vs j'ai ete
  4. Deciphering Latin lyrics from a song

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 3

  1. Sports team names in American v. British English
  2. Danes talking in Danish to Swedes answering in Swedish?

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 4

  1. What is the etymology of the Aramic root "גני or גנא"?
  2. Why is the English language so easy?

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 5

  1. causa vivendi

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 6

  1. Help fix a mistranslation
  2. Dream come true / Nightmare come true - Grammar
  3. C16 Dutch and French
  4. German: using 'Bundesland' for referring to the whole country

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 8

  1. What are the structures of this specific collocation: "there is" and "there are" called in grammatical or linguistic terminology?

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 9

  1. Star Wars etymology
  2. Express location of something in a shelf
  3. Do illiterate English speakers struggle with initialisms?
  4. "fall short of" or "fall short behind"
  5. Ship/sheep in Scottish English

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 11

  1. the meaning of "as"
  2. Definition of decadent

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 12

  1. Ologies, and similar words

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 14

  1. Film cliche phrases
  2. Pronouncing inherit like "in-HER-it", i.e. /ɪn'hərɪt/ instead of /ɪn'herɪt/.

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 15

  1. Etymology of the name Potemkin?

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 17

  1. abconterfet

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 18

  1. Vowel in dog
  2. Foreign word sort of similar to admiration
  3. Goes like the clappers
  4. Help with Chinedum Ndukwe

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 19

  1. IPA to speech
  2. Chinese R and L sound
  3. Is there any relation between the shape of niqqud to their vowels?
  4. Better Call Saul... Is this a wordplay?

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 20

  1. Why is there no "funnest"?

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 21

  1. No Laughing Matter
  2. retronym

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 22

  1. Does the "free" in "The Free Encyclopedia" mean "liberation" or "cost no money"?
  2. Yiddish questions

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 24

  1. Singular or plural verb in "Shingles" article?
  2. Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen
  3. Einwohner (de)
  4. Budrio / Heunburg

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 25

  1. Geman speakers
  2. "Runs paper for a bookmaker" - American

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 27

  1. History of as...as and so...as
  2. Bieberbach etymology/meaning in German

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 28

  1. Software for teaching pronunciation?

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 30

  1. ポプテピピック (Pop Team Epic) article at the Japanese Wikipedia

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 31

  1. What is the meaning of "soy"?
  2. Inordinately