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September 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 1

  1. Future and Conditional tenses of "Must" when using an adverb of degree.
  2. Rodrigo de Freitas

September 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 2

  1. -ikon in place names around Zurich
  2. लिए किये गए, अगर साथ में आये तो किस प्रकार लिखना होगा?
  3. Rules for adding -able to words ending with -ate
  4. Adjectival form of Bosnia and Herzegovina

September 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 4

  1. Ceasing trading
  2. Neko in Japanese
  3. Citing an AP Image for APA Format

September 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 5

  1. How to pronounce Ico-D?
  2. Is phonetic spelling catching on?
  3. Meaning of this phrase
  4. Common Name for USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand (angloshpere?)

September 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 7

  1. Does offsprings exist?
  2. Sanskrit visarga

September 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 8

  1. Correlative conjunctions
  2. Preposition

September 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 9

  1. Suggestion

September 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 10

  1. What word is more suitable for "these days": Which, That, When?
  2. Identify language of subtitles
  3. "4" meaning "for"

September 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 11

  1. Italian insult
  2. The is falling!
  3. BrEng vs. AmEng
  4. pronounce sevillian
  5. cougaran

September 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 13

  1. Pronunciation of Bathurst (surname)
  2. Does the lack of a language authority in English explain why the spelling has not evolved with the pronunciation?

September 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 14

  1. Double X in Names

September 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 15

  1. Why Mount Sinai, Mount Everest, and not Sinai Mount?

September 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 17

  1. About Zhengzhang Shangfang

September 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 18

  1. Modern Hebrew words stressed on the antepenult?
  2. Water lanes
  3. Number of periods of the Spanish trill?

September 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 20

  1. Comma question

September 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 21

  1. Minor Grammatical difficulties, writing English.

September 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 23

  1. Welsh placename pronunciation
  2. What does AFAIK stand for?

September 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 24

  1. Aleksei Vysheslavtsev: Russian captions
  2. Jack and the Bean talk
  3. Accents in Russian orthography

September 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 26

  1. æøå
  2. Etymology of French word "Gare"

September 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 27

  1. Etymology of Slavic suffix -ow/-ov
  2. Etymology of Slavic suffixes -sk and -ski
  3. Etymology of French ne ... pas?
  4. Etymology of name Gernsbacher
  5. Incomplete epitaph on a gravestone
  6. Inclusive terminology in non-English languages
  7. Which variant of English is more dominant?
  8. Is the word "tweet" a generic trademark?
  9. Normality versus normalcy
  10. Zwiebelknopffibel in English?

September 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 28

  1. Decatur
  2. Are these songs sung in Jamaican Patois or Jamaican English?
  3. How do you pronounce 'Trachyandra'?

September 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 29

  1. "Areal" flood watch ?

September 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 30

  1. French translation