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September 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 9

  1. Is there a word for...

September 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 10

  1. burgle
  2. sughauli treaty
  3. Baby corn
  4. Negative comparatives
  5. Why do people ta
  6. Speaking in abbreviations
  7. Punt ermine lynx

September 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 11

  1. All combinations of Greek letters for transliteration
  2. How did Chinese names americanize/anglicize prior to the development of pinyin?

September 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 12

  1. At chapter...
  2. Minutes and seconds in 19th century literature
  3. Latin and the letter J

September 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 13

  1. Logic of progressive and simple tenses
  2. Arguments
  3. y comercial
  4. "Out of hand"
  5. When did "regularly" come to occasionally mean "frequently"?

September 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 14

  1. Meaning of a song title
  2. How do you pronounce "azure"?

September 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 15

  1. Czech:English translator/content editor
  2. Word-ending aversions
  3. Guys

September 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 16

  1. The trouble with tribunes
  2. Using the ampersand rather than the word "and"
  3. Pendo and pendeo

September 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 17

  1. Legislative, vs. Statutory
  2. Handwritten Italian lines
  3. British English term?
  4. Do they ever teach etymology in schools?
  5. Question about Chinese name
  6. Friday the start of the weekend ?

September 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 18

  1. Arabic or Persian transcription request
  2. Referring to a Polish husband-wife pair by a single surname
  3. Tibetan text transcription request
  4. Formating Russian image files so that they appear in English Wikis

September 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 19

  1. Latin caption of a 1669 engraving of Edward Coke

September 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 20

  1. What’s the difference between ‘se le dio’ and ‘se lo dio?
  2. Clutching genitals at night
  3. Help with some slightly vulgar German please.
  4. Big country/big city
  5. “None will level on the line” meaning

September 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 21

  1. "VIC" in German?
  2. Balloon poster
  3. Tempting fate (three times?)
  4. You can tune a piano...
  5. get carried away

September 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 22

  1. "Well good"?

September 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 23

  1. "Just because ‹something› doesn't mean ‹something›"
  2. Question about tenses
  3. /ʌ/

September 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 24

  1. Words for geographical divisions
  2. Are there food terms for all the races?
  3. Translation of French words by sound?
  4. Calvinist and Reformed
  5. Omitting the article in descriptions in German
  6. Indian language documents (possibly Hindi?)
  7. Why "welter" in Welterweight?

September 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 25

  1. Mother-in-law suite synonym ?
  2. Gaelic translation

September 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 26

  1. estado
  2. 'Taking a backseat to....'
  3. archaic terms returning to common usage
  4. Accent that mixes the r sound and w sound?
  5. Punjabi translation help

September 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 27

  1. Chinese language and gender-neutrality
  2. Surrey accent?
  3. Latin book names
  4. Old Prussian language
  5. Mc and Mac names

September 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 28

  1. Khmer in Chinese
  2. Weird symbols seen in a decoration in Bratislava
  3. Word
  4. "Very good, my lord"

September 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 29

  1. Ottoman
  2. Relatives
  3. Siblings question
  4. Can "base" mean "backing track" in Spanish?

September 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 30

  1. Text between Chapters
  2. Slovak language question