User:JackofOz/Ref Desk Questions
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2004
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17 Aug 04 | Why "the" dictionary? (* see 19 Feb 09) | Undiff |
15 Oct 04 | The American National Anthem before 1931 | Undiff |
2005
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2008
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Date | Topic | Desk |
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7 Jan 08 | Arch (arch) and arch (ark) | Language |
9 Jan 08 | V-words associated with anger | Language |
12 Jan 08 | Meaning of "Jailed" | Humanities |
19 Jan 08 | Box office smash | Entertainment |
22 Jan 08 | Bang/dead to rights | Language |
1 Feb 08 | "The" before expressions including personal names | Language |
9 Feb 08 | Centre of gravity of a country and capital cities | Mathematics |
20 Feb 08 | Advertisements with self-comparisons | Miscellaneous |
22 Feb 08 | Curious, suspicious and trying (* see 27 May 11, 14 Aug 12, 7 Jul 23) | Language |
25 Feb 08 | Three nuns | Language |
6 Mar 08 | Authors "writing as" | Language |
11 Mar 08 | Margarine, Margaret and soft/hard g | Language |
12 Mar 08 | Asking the impossible | Language |
16 Mar 08 | Is Uruguay unique? | Language |
19 Mar 08 | Attribution of movie quotes | Language |
26 Mar 08 | Doing blood work | Language |
27 Mar 08 | Actors crossing themselves | Entertainment |
6 Apr 08 | "Can not" vs. "cannot" in the 1860s | Language |
7 Apr 08 | James Watt’s date of death | Humanities |
14 Apr 08 | "Mispronounced" eponyms | Language |
17 Apr 08 | Producers of TV shows | Entertainment |
30 Apr 08 | Not a problem | Language |
9 May 08 | Classifications of persons | Language |
12 May 08 | South-East Asian politician who went missing in Sydney in the 1960s (* see 2 Dec 05) | Miscellaneous |
20 May 08 | One Note, Themes and Variations | Entertainment |
9 Jun 08 | The core rules of English | Language |
14 Jun 08 | Mary Faulkner | Humanities |
19 Jun 08 | Velpeau's Law | Miscellaneous |
24 Jun 08 | Time was | Language |
27 Jun 08 | Wimbledon sexism | Entertainment |
30 Jun 08 | Members of a small group with the same birthday | Miscellaneous |
2 Jul 08 | Birthday coincidences | Mathematics |
7 Jul 08 | Translations of book titles | Language |
21 Jul 08 | James Barton | Entertainment |
23 Jul 08 | Genealogical relationships | Humanities |
26 Jul 08 | Police breaking down doors | Miscellaneous |
27 Jul 08 | Hyphenated homographs | Language |
12 Aug 08 | A-side and B-side of albums | Entertainment |
19 Aug 08 | Weighted Olympic ranking | Entertainment |
28 Aug 08 | Whoever vs. whomever | Language |
1 Sep 08 | The national anthem played at the cinema and at concerts | Entertainment |
9 Sep 08 | Reconstructed literary and musical works | Humanities |
14 Sep 08 | Plural of prima ballerina/assoluta | Language |
18 Sep 08 | How quickly does Google recognise new words? | Miscellaneous |
21 Sep 08 | What's this called | Language |
24 Sep 08 | Strips of the world | Miscellaneous |
26 Sep 08 | U.S. Constitutional over-punctuation | Language |
27 Sep 08 | Samuel L. Gompers' middle name | Humanities |
2 Oct 08 | Geographic jigsaw | Miscellaneous |
Titular character | Language | |
Logic problem: Working out Wendy's birthdate | Mathematics | |
5 Oct 08 | Plural of "man’s man" | Language |
8 Oct 08 | Sharks and sarcoidosis | Language |
27 Oct 08 | Adding extra letters to words | Language |
28 Oct 08 | That'll teach you to ... | Language |
6 Nov 08 | Ant and ent words (mainly adjectives) | Language |
Lunch horn | Language | |
12 Nov 08 | Full moon on birthdays | Science |
19 Nov 08 | TV adverts with mimed voices | Miscellaneous |
24 Nov 08 | Factory cash backs | Miscellaneous |
1 Dec 08 | Tousch | Humanities |
2 Dec 08 | Widow/widower | Language |
8 Dec 08 | Film music released before the film was released | Entertainment |
-ographer | Language | |
Give, seen, came and done as past tense variants | Language | |
13 Dec 08 | Living geniuses | Miscellaneous |
15 Dec 08 | Use of "the" at the delicatessen | Language |
19 Dec 08 | If I don't see you beforehand ... | Language |
30 Dec 08 | Waiting for the water to turn hot | Science |
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2024
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Date | Topic | Desk |
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3 Jan 24 | "if ... then" stranding | Language |
29 Jan 24 | Tree hanging over a neighbour's fence | Humanities |
7 Feb 24 | Ctrl-Y timing issue | Computing |
9 Feb 24 | French senses in translation | Language |
24 Feb 24 | Say, speak, talk, tell | Language |
13 Mar 24 | Not to change the subject ... | Language |
14 Mar 24 | Have never vs. never have | Language |
16 Apr 24 | 1,000 random editors | Mathematics |
2 May 24 | Why is Tresckow pronounced like -cow and and not -coff | Language |
9 May 24 | Collatz Conjecture | Mathematics |
27 May 24 | Root vs. rowt | Language |
8 Jun 24 | Strange expressions | Language |
22 Jul 24 | Suspend | Language |
31 Jul 24 | Book publication dates | Humanities |
7 Aug 24 | A report is being prepared for the coroner | Miscellaneous |
16 Aug 24 | Czar of all the rushes | Entertainment |
17 Aug 24 | German genitive of personal names | Language |
25 Aug 24 | Hooked by a bad review | Language |
4 Sep 24 | The way of all flesh: Origin | Humanities |
6 Sep 24 | Anomalous result | Mathematics |
8 Sep 24 | French 'de le' --> 'du', and 'de les' --> 'des': an exception? | Language |
14 Sep 24 | "Mental health" as a negative | Language |
26 Sep 24 | Secret ballot used in determining guilt | Humanities |