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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 1

  1. Scotyn - Welsh word, Anglesey remedy for nausea

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 5

  1. In the realm of the mind ...
  2. Chinese grammar
  3. Correct word for the suffix in an ordinal numeral

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 7

  1. Plural of acronyms ending with S

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 8

  1. Are there any words in Arabic with the ے letter
  2. Oxford spelling

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 9

  1. "yet" in this context

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 10

  1. Forename pronunciation - Ion Trewin
  2. go strange places
  3. Sanskrit, Hindi, and Proto-Indo-European

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 11

  1. Arabic text

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 12

  1. D.S. al Fine
  2. stickers
  3. Guts for garters

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 13

  1. Latera capitis

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 14

  1. Chinese origins for words for parents
  2. Toffee-nosed
  3. Past tense verb form of "accession"
  4. leave no man behind and no man left behind
  5. Term for a major scale

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 16

  1. a æ and e
  2. Pronunciations

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 17

  1. Pronunciation of Italian name "Ezio"
  2. Please check my translation

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 18

  1. The verb “to be” in Shakespeare
  2. French typography
  3. Some help needed.

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 19

  1. Falomlás

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 20

  1. Older or elder

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 21

  1. Word for a 'neologism created solely for its humoristic effect'

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 22

  1. Can someone translate this into Chinese
  2. Translation: What does the German Herdgeschehen mean?

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 23

  1. Who or whom?
  2. Run-on sentence in Jasper Rine article

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 25

  1. From the humanities desk
  2. Indian names
  3. West Maryland’s dialect

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 26

  1. Awkward Hebrew dual
  2. Definition of "gonopterine"

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 27

  1. Ukrainian name

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 29

  1. Alphabetical order of same forename and surname, with and without a middle name
  2. IsiXhosa

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 May 31

  1. EMU, TRIO, TARE
  2. Southern-accented Arizonans