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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 1

  1. How can the ambiguity of 'hook up' be solved?
  2. Foot

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 2

  1. Author John Flanagan influenced by Tolkien?
  2. Is there a relation between the word "Christians" and the word "cross"?
  3. Meaning of "fit you for slippers"

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 3

  1. Amending the language
  2. The twain hath met
  3. Atria longe pulcherrima...

March 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 4

  1. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
  2. Urgent translation request to Japanese

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 5

  1. General (universal) surprise
  2. Indefinite article for ʻokina
  3. Accents
  4. What British accent is the closest to Australian accent?

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 6

  1. "undermined with"?
  2. Replacing W with T in the question words...
  3. Why do some scientific publications require submissions to be in the country’s dialect?
  4. How do I access this study?

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 8

  1. Latin alphabet

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 9

  1. "where shall we lead our Association " - please help me revise this direct translation for it to become more grammatically correct yet retain the original idea?

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 10

  1. Korean expression/word: "gross-mid-ah" (my attempt at transliterating what it sounds like to me phonetically)
  2. Superstars, superheroes, supermodels, ...

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 11

  1. Tiananmen Square Protests (1989)
  2. Joke explanation

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 12

  1. Help with a Russian name.
  2. Native speaker variation
  3. Some questions on Breton
  4. Unmerging wine-whine sporadically
  5. Online Basque dataset
  6. Converting Diacritic to Non-Diacritic

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 13

  1. T (not Th) adjective
  2. Dental fricative spellings

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 14

  1. Biblical Hebrew questions: geminates
  2. Biblical Hebrew question: roots with identical first and second radical (פ = ע)?

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 15

  1. Goat sound
  2. Why doesn't the Chinese Wikipedia have a word for Songkran?

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 16

  1. A few surnames
  2. "doesn't assume", in one word (or two words, of which the second one is a preposition).
  3. Deductible, Deducible, Deductable, Inferable Does this thesaurus site get it wrong ?
  4. Do all languages have more consonants than vowels?
  5. Russian hand sign?

March 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 18

  1. Speaking Japanese?

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 19

  1. Why does the simple adjective is called "positive"?
  2. ISO-8859-1
  3. Conditional mood#German
  4. Teachers who recommend parents to only speak the dominant language

March 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 20

  1. Russian "Да иду" (vs. "Да я иду"), as opposed to French "Oui je vais" (vs. "Oui vais"), and to English "Yes I am" (vs. "Yes am").
  2. Naming patterns among half-Han families

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 21

  1. Latin translation check
  2. Even under, under even

March 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 22

  1. Above sentence level grammar rules

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 23

  1. Ambiguity joke meaning
  2. Millner and Miller
  3. Dangling modifiers

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 24

  1. German word that sounds like 'gull-lighter'
  2. wiki, source, translate

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 25

  1. Translation request: Chinese.
  2. Is Singlish and Manglish mutually intelligible?

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 26

  1. Persian

March 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 28

  1. Use of phrase "General elections"
  2. Basque - verbs receiving a case suffix?

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 29

  1. 'Types of semiconductor diode' vs. 'Types of semiconductor diodes'

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 March 30

  1. Translation request
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