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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 1

  1. Tank legend
  2. Deventer pronunciation

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 2

  1. Why is Tresckow pronounced like -cow and and not -coff
  2. Chandrabindu

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 3

  1. invisible word breaks in Chinese
  2. Russian sentence?

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 5

  1. Latin

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 6

  1. Theatre jargon

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 12

  1. Questions again

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 13

  1. English variety where "what it's" is grammatical
  2. -er

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 14

  1. "United States customary units"

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 15

  1. Talk the hind legs off a donkey
  2. "accidents and conveniences"

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 17

  1. Pangram

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 18

  1. vowel length contrast

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 19

  1. Numbers

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 21

  1. The NATO phonetic alphabet is prescriptive, not descriptive
  2. occupation-derived names
  3. English article

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 23

  1. Three questions
  2. "Wouldn't you like to know?" origin/occurrence

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 26

  1. Before non-Protestant churches switched to vernacular
  2. Voltan or Voltaic?

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 27

  1. Root vs rowt

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 29

  1. Jargon
  2. Paris, Peru.....Iraq, Iran....

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 31

  1. Can someone’s native language affect how they hear other languages?
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