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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 1

  1. Official list of official languages
  2. Spanish surname confirmation
  3. Yellow Sapphire
  4. What is a cercle?

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 2

  1. Special meaning of "league"

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 3

  1. English grammar question
  2. Literature: English/from England

July 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 4

  1. what accent/style is this?

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 5

  1. Professional Door Opener and other jobs

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 8

  1. mutual intelligibility of dutch and german
  2. Script or alphabet
  3. "four-wheels drive" vs "four-wheel drive".
  4. Fall in love, fall pregnant
  5. 'is a former restaurant' and 'awarded a star in 1998-2002'
  6. Grammar issue: use of approximate vs. approximately

July 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 9

  1. Name and position of a German woman on Birkenau camp staff
  2. Latin word for "square"
  3. On Stranger Tides
  4. The exact transcription for "quarter inch"

July 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 10

  1. Kazakh written in Arabic
  2. English understanding problem

July 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 11

  1. resynthesis of ordinal numbers

July 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 12

  1. German turnips

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 13

  1. Code words
  2. Polish Heavy Metal References

July 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 14

  1. Do you use italics or not?
  2. Root 'hild' in modern German
  3. alternate wording in Anne Frank diary

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 15

  1. 'is a former restaurant' and 'awarded a star in 1998-2002'
  2. Meaning of Spanish "birrodado"?
  3. Is this verb singular or plural?

July 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 18

  1. Hebrew pronunciation
  2. Meaning of "Auslander Bonzen raus"

July 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 20

  1. Ambiguity in "everything is $1" joke
  2. Chinese reader wanted

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 21

  1. Latin help, school motto
  2. Appropriate comma use and terminology disambiguation

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 22

  1. Second person narratives

July 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 23

  1. Placement of the adverb "not"

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 24

  1. Vietnamese IPA phonetics
  2. Spanish demonym for people from Wales and Gaels

July 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 25

  1. 㞎㞎, 屎, 粪, dung, poop, feces, shit, excrement, doo-doo, poo-poo, manure
  2. Translation Request - for article on French cartoonist

July 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 27

  1. And also
  2. Britons abroad
  3. Yiddish abbreviations?
  4. German to English translations

July 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 28

  1. Foster homes, orphanages, poorhouses, workhouses, and almshouses
  2. Judeo-Arabic payment orders
  3. Being told that I speak with a Canadian accent

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 29

  1. "Kicking the bucket" as an NPI
  2. "he says he don't" / "he says he doesn't"

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 30

  1. Phrasing in the case of restaurants that have ceased to exist
  2. "Dating"

July 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 31

  1. Figures
  2. "Who was it done by?" VS. "By whom was it done?"