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February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 2

  1. Spelling of La Guardia

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 3

  1. Avestan script
  2. Are these the same: "it's quite the contrary/reverse/opposite"?

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 4

  1. "Suspending" U.S. presidential campaigns
  2. Heng (letter)
  3. Study of time
  4. "Half-wave rectification" or "Half wave rectification"?

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 7

  1. French circumflex

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 8

  1. Part of speech types and acronyms
  2. Is survived by or was survived by?
  3. Mardol
  4. Is there an English idiom for this?

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 9

  1. Pronunciation of surname Appice
  2. Japanese: meaning of Toyo, like in Toyo university, Toyota, Tōyō kanji

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 11

  1. Long-fingering
  2. the thingness of things
  3. Assignment of Gender

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 12

  1. Warranty & Guarantee
  2. Affects vs. effects

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 13

  1. Question asked at WP:RPP
  2. Origin of the given name "jessica"
  3. Catch someone's attention
  4. Retarded meaning delayed

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 14

  1. What is the correct word? Which, who, or that?

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 15

  1. Auteur as an adjective
  2. Old English

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 16

  1. Grossepelas

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 17

  1. Words about size in English

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 19

  1. Re: Avestan
  2. Inverted question and exclamation marks

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 20

  1. between … to

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 21

  1. Formality of "get to do something"
  2. Excessive comma?
  3. Developing
  4. Am I happy with who I am?
  5. Placement of apostrophe

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 22

  1. Tunisian Arabic

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 23

  1. Tense, mood, aspect, and ordering
  2. North African Saïd Aouita, etc.
  3. Pronunciation of "avoirdupois"
  4. Origin of the name Karolinska Institutet

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 24

  1. Mongrel pronunciations

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 26

  1. 500 year old English poem
  2. Person + wanderlust

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 27

  1. CJK font size
  2. Hebrew gimel typography

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 28

  1. "Volatility" as a term in Chemistry

February 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 29

  1. T-V distinction in Hebrew
  2. Misread Latin word
  3. Colon or semi-colon?
  4. Is this a recent language change?
  5. A Germanic gender
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