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November 1
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- Second languages by number of speakers
- Chinese characters in File:Tsingdao Brewery.jpg
- Teuruarii IV: French translation
- dornthly dog pest
- Toilet signs
November 2
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November 3
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- Questions about Id al-Adha
- Writing Russian with an abjad
- Questions about Id al-Adha
- Is this another AE/BE difference?
- Where did our capitalisation rules for headings come from?
- Data
November 4
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November 5
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November 6
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- Something we'll only be able to guess
- Translation
- Phonology: unrounded back vowels
- French grammarian's last words
- Chinese translation
November 7
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- Ma Dibos
- Which chinese language kept the most Middle Chinese vocabularies?
- Chinese help/File:說好普通話.png
- Question on Chinese.
- Are 'revelation' and 'revealment' synonyms?
- Chinese questions
- Who composed an Ode to Spot?
- Alcool Prohibition : "spoof-laws" ?
November 8
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- Pensions, nominations, mutations, congés, etc
- Spanish
- Ancient Greek grammar
- a can of Spauldings
- Sign on, Sign in, log on, log in, signon, etc.
- French Court Translation
- Arabic speaker needed
- Translation help
November 9
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- -er/-re
- Languages bar
- language using
- etc., usage of
- Ancient Greek Participles perfect table
- Chinese name of novel
- Quick translation from French
November 10
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- another who/whom
- Chinese help
- Where is American English orthography used?
- Follow-up to "another who/whom" above: hyphen in well-known
- File:Soy sauce in supermarket.JPG
November 11
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November 12
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November 13
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November 14
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November 15
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- What does it mean?
- Allochthous, alternative and alternate, anonymously
- Is this writer here a dumb or a flowery writer?
- IPA transcription - Norwegian
- notional/notational
- Greek newspaper research
- Odd string of modifiers
- Samuel Kipi
- Peeps, Weemz, Sandz etc
November 16
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November 17
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- in what language does dx stand for /ʒ/ (zh)
- Etymology of Karkadeh or Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Hawaiian
- Pronouncing Heyde
- Help translating a page
- Pronouncing "death" as [dæθ] by Americans.
- Linguistic features of an encyclopaedia entry
November 18
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November 19
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- Incident vs accident
- Non PIE forms of sheep counting
- Is there any significance to a parrot being named 'Mithu'?
- Sanskrit
- Arabic translation needed
- English gramatical use of the phrase "easier said than done"
- Dangling participle... or not?
- Ov
- Maan News translation
- Whatever happened to the distinctions between there/their/they're and than/then?
November 20
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- How many official national languages are there in the world?
- garden path sentence
- Spelling of Mount Kailas or Kailash
- Uses of don't and doesn't
- Chinese help
- Idu do kraju, de kurtsi sraju
- Arabic help
November 21
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- What comes before previous? After next?
- Guide to pronouncing (saying) mathematics in German
- Need a word meaning "fate"
- Stative VS dynamic verb: sustain
November 22
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- "Boffins" and The Register
- Verb endings originally were pronouns?
- tampopo
- Question about translations of War and Peace
- "Do ritsi na bal!" translation?
November 23
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- Japanese transcription of German
- Pronunciaton of Speaight
- What Arabic to learn?
- Learn a language in x days
- Obscure Scottish dialect in Brave (2012)
- On/at website
November 25
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November 26
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November 27
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November 28
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- Name for cooking technique
- Checks drawn to cash
- Is "steampunk" a proper noun?
- Regarding the editing of a quotation in a newspaper (or elsewhere)
November 29
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- Chinese help: I Not Stupid Too
- Which tense?
- Does this response make sense in terms of grammar?
- What does this banner say?
- need adjective