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October 2
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- Ummm...why is October called October?
- To bollock someone
- How can Chinese people understand Japaneses Kanji?
- Multiple adjectival morphemes
- Arguendo
- Famous phrases in fictional languages sought
- Check this sentence
October 3
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- Question about British apartment numbering
- Capitalization of "van" as part of surname
- Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact movie in Japanese
- Any Romance languages that historically shifted Latin's "f" and/or "b" to "h" or something like that?
October 4
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October 5
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- Sanskrit help
- One
- language
- Scientific Name Origins
- List By Phonemes (or amount of phonemes)
- Unicode for Chinese
- St Someone vs St. Someone
- Ashansu Translation
October 6
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- What is the Japanese character in this image?
- Inthronization or enthronement?
- жить и не умереть/умирать
October 7
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- "in the name of public order"
- Correctness in English grammar?
- Second to the last, third to the last, fourth to the last...
- Is there a Wheelock's English?
October 8
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October 9
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- The difference between physics and physiology - etymologically
- Influence of Cantonese
- Is Hutterite German called Low German?
October 10
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- Could we know when or how the convert of the meaning of the Greek word "physis" be done?
- collecting songs with nonsense syllables
- Modern French words derived from Old French nominative?
October 11
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October 12
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October 13
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- What do you say to someone as a polite greeting at 4:00 AM in the morning, before the sunrise, and the person hasn't had a night's sleep?
- Is there a single English word in common use (not a coinage) that means female gangster or mobster?
- What does this mean in Chinese, and how do I pronounce it?
- Specific terms for males instead of generic terms
- Is there a modal adverb which indicates a probability of at least 50%?
October 14
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- Is Afrikaans useful to learn?
- Using "extends" for "is extended"
- Did the English language have a writing system or script prior to the Latin alphabet?
October 15
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- American knowledge of Shakespeare
- Meaning of to roger and to dodger in the phrase roger dodger?
- Will to power
October 17
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- Is there something rude about "Yandrisovitz"?
- Plural Posessive of phrases of compound nouns with head first?
- Very Complicated Family
October 18
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- 'Full stop' Confusion
- 'Numeric' letter(s) conversion to 'Alphabetic' words
- 'Participle' Confusion
- 12th century Arabic constellation
- Contemporary assessment of Rabindranath Tagore by western media and literary critics
October 19
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- Line breaks in dates
- Italian language question
- "Transliteration"
- What is the origin of the name Sierra Leone?
- Word for "internationally socioeconomic"
- IPA symbol
- New old words
October 20
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- How do you pronounce "propanol" and "propanal"?
- What is the correct word? Ensemble.
- To be or not to be.....
October 21
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October 22
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- How to pronounce the word Wayland in American English
- Short form of newspaper name
- what does "inline" and "online" mean?
- Another Relative Question
- The dreaded lurgi seems to have mutated
October 23
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October 24
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October 25
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October 26
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- Besides in English, where does PIE *w survive as [w] in any modern Indo-European language?
- Meaning of "wilderness variation"
- Indian names with "shit"
October 27
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- To comma or not to comma
- Strange Translation (presumably from Hausa)
- Word Query 2
- Sentence correction
- Huzur
- '...'
- Soviet Rally Cry
October 28
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October 29
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October 30
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- Chinese (?) translation request
- Any mistakes in the Korean in this image?
- ø versus œ (ö) in Swedish IPA