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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 1

  1. Popularity of verbates

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 2

  1. What they would show at daybreak is the question here at issue.

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 3

  1. Japanese "tei!"
  2. David Chotjewitz in need of German help
  3. Wording of the opening sentence of a question
  4. Maori(?) addendum of The Lone Ranger intro
  5. Odds

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 6

  1. dignity of a July morning

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 7

  1. Renaissance Capitals
  2. die Luft scheint der Flasche zu entweichen

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 8

  1. Native American lingua franca
  2. I need pronunciation help with the following words?

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 9

  1. I'm buffaloed
  2. Dropping the subject in english

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 10

  1. acknowledge their fiefdom to me
  2. EURO 2016
  3. Doubts

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 11

  1. monkey wrench
  2. Onomatopoeia for the tree-falling sound

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 12

  1. accented characters
  2. Etymology of Latin libellula
  3. Richard Garriott

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 13

  1. Expanding English article Humus from German article; where to put translated German page?

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 15

  1. English places with Welsh names

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 17

  1. Spanish naming

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 18

  1. Purpose of the royal "we" and others.
  2. Kakuro

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 19

  1. Iwan Rheon
  2. Bacule?

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 20

  1. the meaning of "mean"
  2. Vietnamese wartime spelling reform
  3. "Were" vs. "had been"

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 21

  1. Translation of name at Joe Karam

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 22

  1. Adjective "organ"
  2. Computer Language Dictionary & Thesaurus sought
  3. fabric
  4. Bear of little brain

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 23

  1. the meaning of 'Joint Head of School'
  2. "next in earlier preference"- what does that mean?
  3. stake one's reputation on a particular cause

June 24

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  1. Beyond the pale

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 25

  1. Medical question to be diagnosed
  2. in their order and time of first song

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 27

  1. Expressions that don't mean what they say
  2. The word for the seller and the store
  3. string
  4. Difference between g and voiced k

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 28

  1. Job (biblical figure)
  2. Syllabification of "Citra" (Indonesian word) using spaces
  3. Conditional mood and subjective
  4. How much English, Chinese and Japanese languages have changed compared to past centuries?

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 June 29

  1. Would you refer to a number of years as "more" or "greater"?
  2. Old Italian song
  3. Syllables of "Bagaimana" (Indonesian word) using spaces
  4. Phrase “autocomplete”, or rather: Automatic phrase continuation suggestions, application for Windows 7 ?