Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2023

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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 1

  1. German May Day
  2. Ivan with an "ee" or "ai"

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 2

  1. Icelandic, Esperanto
  2. Understanding a foreign language text
  3. Envelope vs. ensemble

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 3

  1. English verbs
  2. Below par

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 5

  1. Get 'a' divorce
  2. Cartellverband
  3. Why does Sunday have a special name in Chinese?

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 7

  1. A rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 9

  1. Russian propaganda lessons
  2. Questions
  3. Open central unrounced vowel

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 11

  1. dif [Balkan Slavic langs]
  2. American Umlaut

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 12

  1. Redundancy problem
  2. "Pig's feet" vs. "pig feet", etc.

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 13

  1. Falling diphthongs in Romance languages
  2. Does Rhoticity still exist in Welsh English?

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 15

  1. Different words for laughing and crying
  2. Embryo and fetus in Greek
  3. A few questions

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 16

  1. Fictional Latin Footnote

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 18

  1. It's I or It's me??

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 20

  1. Use of K for C
  2. When are halves plural, and why?
  3. "Hurrah" stays the same; "hurray" becomes "hooray"
  4. Some questions
  5. "scarce" pronounced with the vowel of "air"

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 21

  1. Abandoned

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 22

  1. Pronouns with 2 possible referents
  2. Could a Norwegian speaker please translate eMMa's newest music video into English? Title: Over Deg
  3. Translation of Latin text
  4. Swedish Who's Who
  5. Possessive forms of corps
  6. Old chinese

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 23

  1. Aren't all languages related to one another?

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 24

  1. X after X, plural or not?
  2. Number questions

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 25

  1. "Figuratively" (and "temporarily" in GA/RP and "laboratory" in GA and "militarily" in RP/UK and "necessarily" in RP), the stress being on the first syllable out of five (at least). Does English have any other such word?

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 26

  1. Vowel system

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 27

  1. Minor but puzzling naming
  2. mature

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 28

  1. Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre
  2. English language construct where adverb position matters

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 29

  1. Vowel questions

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 30

  1. Sapphic thoughts
  2. Question about assimilation

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 31

  1. Did 17th and 18th-century British English (Early Modern and Modern English) sound similar to West Country English, the Lancashire dialect, or the Northumbrian dialect?