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September 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 1

  1. Translation from Low German
  2. Another Slovenian question

September 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 2

  1. Zero Copula in Slavic Languages
  2. Help translating a sentence of Korean
  3. Turkic countries and places with "-stan" in their name
  4. Up the spout

September 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 3

  1. is there a word that means unpleasant but necessary

September 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 4

  1. Bengali language into different categories
  2. "Heavenly Empire" or "Celestial Empire"?
  3. Is Arcedeckne of Anglo-Saxon origin?
  4. Does "oh no!" mean the same thing in Japanese and English.
  5. What is bon-ton?

September 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 5

  1. Latin phrases
  2. Kalasan: How it is pronounced?

September 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 6

  1. Dilly
  2. IPA request
  3. Bury–berry merger

September 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 7

  1. Within 90 days of v. after 90 days
  2. Religious discrimination

September 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 8

  1. What does this say?

September 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 9

  1. A Hangul pronunciation question: pronouncing the clusters ㄹㅅ, ㄹㅎ and ㄹㅌ in batchim position?
  2. Hungarian translation check?
  3. Pertinent question
  4. ESL editors with garbled English

September 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 10

  1. Pierogi, pyrohy and varenyky in Canadian Oxford Dictionary

September 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 11

  1. That

September 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 13

  1. "Service delivery" in Ugandan Internal Affairs?
  2. sunday morning show
  3. Body part anagrams

September 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 14

  1. Pre-revival "hippopotamus" in Hebrew
  2. mahada yetfalssaf

September 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 15

  1. DMZ - Pronunciation
  2. Language and Vision

September 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 16

  1. There is a pleasure in the pathless wood

September 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 17

  1. Get yourself a shrink

September 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 18

  1. "teaching the King's English"
  2. Jimmy Savile

September 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 19

  1. Mom and Dad
  2. IPA superscripts

September 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 20

  1. Need help to translate to spanish
  2. Full Arabic fonts
  3. Okurigana
  4. Es singen die Damen und Herren in idiomatic english

September 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 21

  1. Name of class for: male, female, young, and group
  2. May I correct "it's" etc. in the Reference desk?
  3. German question

September 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 22

  1. Early doors
  2. What are they saying in this video?
  3. Great Vowel Shift

September 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 23

  1. Pre-WW1 German physics paper
  2. Nearby neighbor
  3. English understanding problem

September 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 24

  1. Are there volunteer editors who edit novels for writers who can't afford professional services?
  2. Is this considered epenthesis?

September 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 25

  1. Just a little Russian

September 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 26

  1. Arabic paleography
  2. Help with French translation
  3. Quick Japanese Translation

September 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 27

  1. Meaning
  2. Knightly address

September 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 28

  1. "Bed smart"
  2. Commented literature
  3. "... attributed with a little odd sense of humor".
  4. Spelling of parallel

September 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 29

  1. Pre-war German paper - 2
  2. What does this word mean?
  3. Name-dropping without any names
  4. "As" vs. "as if"
  5. ÖBB

September 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 30

  1. French licensing statement
  2. Do Scandinavians have a word for non-Scandinavians?
  3. Pre- WW1 German paper 3
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