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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 1

  1. Area with fast paced speech

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 2

  1. Use of singular when describing action of plural.

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 3

  1. Question about the Spanish language

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 4

  1. Chinese to English translation of Water Margin Poem

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 5

  1. Help writing dirty Latin
  2. The pronunciations
  3. What are scruggins?
  4. Princess Holiday
  5. What is snuffy?

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 6

  1. Lacking of stress symbol(s)?
  2. Getting the Tan "with fam and ham"
  3. Posh accent Regency England

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 7

  1. Spanish pronunciation of Giovanni
  2. Rhyming in English
  3. Spanish pronunciation of Hugo Dellien

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 8

  1. Pronunciation of Sitak
  2. French pronunciation of Montpellier
  3. paleo- and archaeo-
  4. Are our transcriptions of Serbo-Croatian overly complicated?

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 9

  1. Dasselbe oder die gleiche?
  2. Voynich_manuscript online
  3. Pronunciation of Alund
  4. Spanish pronunciation of Michael
  5. About Spanish pronunciations

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 10

  1. Was the R in Rome rhotic?
  2. Spanish pronunciation of Mailen Auroux

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 11

  1. Michal Krčmář

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 12

  1. Does word evolution bias in favor of homonyms?
  2. "salted caramel"?

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 13

  1. Reading Old English
  2. Forming the perfect aspect in English without using "to have."
  3. OED for phrases

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 14

  1. Pronouncing a famous proverb in Judaeo-Arabic

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 16

  1. Latin rap motto check
  2. Análisis Textual

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 17

  1. Scud running

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 18

  1. What are engineers' helmets called?
  2. the thumb, the nose

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 19

  1. exclamation marks

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 21

  1. Automatic writing

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 22

  1. Mounting a running horse
  2. He speaks no French/He doesn't speak French.

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 23

  1. "I before e except after c"

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 24

  1. Does "iT'D Really" have anything to do with a trill consonant?
  2. Amoo
  3. Vae! Puto, deus fio
  4. Word for not lesbian, or not gay man

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 25

  1. Anna-Padna Karina?
  2. Advertising copywriter needing some coaching?
  3. Misuse of etc.

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 26

  1. lie/lay
  2. Topic-comment structure in otherwise SVO languages

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 February 28

  1. Lack of leadership
  2. Mary Sue