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A fact from The Power of Babel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 September 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the author of The Power of Babel says that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?

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The result was: promoted by DimensionalFusion talk 10:24, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the author of The Power of Babel claims that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?

Source: "For McWhorter, the language / dialect distinction borders on being meaningless. 'Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but 'Swedish', 'Norwegian', and 'Danish' are really one 'language', 'Scandinavian', he writes." Holt, Jim. “Homme, Hombre, Omul.” The American Scholar, vol. 71, no. 2, 2002, pp. 142–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41213307. Accessed 18 Sept. 2024. Wikipedia Library link here

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lionel Haward

Moved to mainspace by DrOrinScrivello (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

DrOrinScrivello (talk) 23:18, 18 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

The hook fact appears in the article and can be verified from the above JSTOR link. The article is well-written and was nominated in time. The QPQ has been completed. I think this is G2G--N Ø 11:00, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]