Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2024

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January 1

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  1. That or Which?

January 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 2

  1. Term for opening synthetic raffia string

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 3

  1. "if ... then" stranding

January 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 5

  1. Questions

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 6

  1. What is a gange?

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 8

  1. A joke non-natives may not understand
  2. “There is to me” possession

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 9

  1. Why I see you are a bee, or in brief: Y.I.C.U.R.A.B.
  2. Dental fricatives

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 10

  1. Phrase construction with alone adjectives

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 11

  1. Spark out
  2. "a hornet's nest" v. "a hornets' nest"

January 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 12

  1. What is the correct way to say this?

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 15

  1. Spelling of non-English names--who decides?

January 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 16

  1. Swapping V and W

January 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 17

  1. succession vs accession
  2. Dutch phrase "ga je gang"

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 18

  1. Past participle of "to burn"

January 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 19

  1. Do Americans typically pronounce "Bologna" (the place) as "Baloney"?
  2. Homophone-like combinations
  3. English questions

January 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 20

  1. Usage of 'Du' in German
  2. Latin alphabet

January 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 22

  1. Monogenesis hypothesis
  2. What does M/S mean in front of Indian company names?

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 24

  1. Full stops in Chinese textbook

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 25

  1. Telescopic ladder

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 26

  1. Hungarians: Is EMMA (Women’s Association for Birth Rights in Hungary) an acronym?
  2. What is this called and why does it happen?

January 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 27

  1. Removing "incidental mentions of authors"

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 28

  1. Questions

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 29

  1. Surname ordering
  2. Slavic(?) "starting to do (something)"
  3. translation for German word "Aktus"

January 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 30

  1. Gulag
  2. Pre-Latin Native American translation
  3. New questions

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 31

  1. The term "The Old Man" for the 30 yo captain in "Das Boot" - mistranslation?
  2. Pronunciation of zoo- words