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May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 2

  1. "Roll" in "thunder"
  2. Using "we" for prehistoric human-like animals
  3. Is "underwhelming" a perfectly normal word?

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 3

  1. Tastes and flavors to describe personality
  2. "Not unlike"
  3. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 4

  1. Quiz with rough homophones - sounding out border cases
  2. "Expressiveness" of different natural languages
  3. Manner of writing Roman letters

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 7

  1. Ankhesenpaaten
  2. Word for "chimpanzee" in Arabic
  3. Arabic: Does رهم or رهام or راهم or راهام mean anything?

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 8

  1. Polyglot?
  2. Pan (Genus), origin of the word

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 9

  1. Words with the -ine ending that describe things like specific animals
  2. word for...

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 11

  1. Author(s) of a Chinese article
  2. Declined to violence
  3. Simplified language for American troops
  4. English word that means "to walk around the perimeter of land"

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 12

  1. "Are you embarrassed of me ?"
  2. Two lines I can't make out in a song in a Norwegian dialect

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 13

  1. Conocer with or without the a?
  2. Diacritical mark on the e in wretched and winged
  3. How to find language partner for Cajun French?

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 14

  1. Cow-Honeybourne
  2. Chinese quotation style
  3. 'not' favourable
  4. Swedish and swahili in "Out of Africa"
  5. "She got pregnant with her/his/their/the couple's baby."

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 15

  1. Transliteration from Arabic
  2. How many languages have ever existed?

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 16

  1. Ah (阿)
  2. Underdots for cerebrals

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 17

  1. incredible
  2. "I am an alt"
  3. A Spanish/Russian r and a French/German r, in the same language.
  4. Uses of the terms "Middle" and "Old English"

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 18

  1. Translating Rohan
  2. 'To share a measure in common'
  3. What did Russian ca. 17-18th C. really sound like?
  4. Classifying sounds: consonants and vowels vs. obstruents and sonorants

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 19

  1. Translation from German

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 20

  1. 'not' favourable [reposted]
  2. Names of nationalities in ASL
  3. Not eating anything that has eyes
  4. English and French polyglot
  5. A moment-ous question
  6. English consonants sorted by frequency

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 21

  1. backlash
  2. "Millions of data"?

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 22

  1. Is there a term for intentionally wasting a person's time ?
  2. Abstract-object-only transitive verbs and generative grammar

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 23

  1. Has a linguist made a rough pecking order of languages​ or accents by "average amount of tone variations and stress"?

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 24

  1. Which Versus That

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 25

  1. Japanese seal

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 26

  1. Teochew: 白仁
  2. What language is "Hays hark nviranats ukhti"
  3. Sibilant naming
  4. Origin of the phrase "A Drink Before the War"

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 27

  1. Post-Brexit EU languages
  2. Theory that chi does not derive from samekh

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 28

  1. Jowisz
  2. opposite

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 29

  1. Male Elizabeths
  2. Modern Greek, pronunciation.

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 May 31

  1. Colons and semicolons
  2. "self " and "bone ", denoted by the same word, in various languages.
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