Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2017

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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 1

1. Trisonic?

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 2

1. Origins of habitual be in AAVE

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 3

1. When were the racial terms derived?

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 4

1. Why do we have Wikipedia?
2. How can such a glaring spelling error be made in Supergirl?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 5

1. What does the defibrilator do to the heart when it febrilates?
2. Free entry/free admission/free admittance

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 6

1. Sanskrit Kamala and Padma

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 7

1. Homogeneity of variance and mean

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 8

1. Pretentious interview stories
2. IPA pronunciations of Romanian-language names
3. e.g., i.e. and etc. vs eg, ie and etc

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 9

1. Does the German press report crimes of refugees?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 10

1. Slang use of "hang"
2. Mr. Bean

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 11

1. Phonetic lowering of u to o
2. Alternation
3. But and however

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 13

1. "On aggregate"
2. PIE gender

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 14

1. "broadly sympathize"

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 15

1. Is there a word that means...this...?
2. "No hay salida" and "No exit"
3. Are these expressions right and common?

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 16

1. "Ah" name prefix in Singapore 1960s

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 17

1. How fast is radio news read?
2. English Language: The use of Whom

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 18

1. Symbol for transcribing Chinese
2. Muhammad variants
3. A > E sound change

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 19

1. "dɪfrn one ", instead of "different one ".
2. "beginner" and "starter" are not interchangeable. What about "begin" and "start"?
3. Family names vs. Dynasty names

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 20

1. Solar eclipse of August 18, 1868
2. Egg question

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 21

1. Does Irish gean cánach really exist?
2. Looking for a word/expression

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 23

1. Plural of "mail"
2. French "roselys"

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 24

1. English (UK) grammar

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 25

1. "Write a check for a package of chewing gum"
2. Slang for "recreational drug"
3. Origin of the phrase "when a man and a woman love each other very much..."
4. My project.....

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 26

1. Spanish/Catalan translation of bulb review
2. When Latin decayed as language of science

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 27

1. Quotation marks vs. italicized text; 'meaning' vs. 'which means'; comma vs. parentheses
2. Accent vs dialect
3. Define language

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 29

1. Research on Hempl's theory

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 30

1. Opposites of Greek-derived words beginning with `H`
2. Alternatives to classifying speakers by number of languages