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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 1

1. Future and Conditional tenses of "Must" when using an adverb of degree.
2. Rodrigo de Freitas

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 2

1. -ikon in place names around Zurich
2. लिए किये गए, अगर साथ में आये तो किस प्रकार लिखना होगा?
3. Rules for adding -able to words ending with -ate
4. Adjectival form of Bosnia and Herzegovina

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 4

1. Ceasing trading
2. Neko in Japanese
3. Citing an AP Image for APA Format

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 5

1. How to pronounce Ico-D?
2. Is phonetic spelling catching on?
3. Meaning of this phrase
4. Common Name for USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand (angloshpere?)

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 7

1. Does offsprings exist?
2. Sanskrit visarga

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 8

1. Correlative conjunctions
2. Preposition

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 9

1. Suggestion

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 10

1. What word is more suitable for "these days": Which, That, When?
2. Identify language of subtitles
3. "4" meaning "for"

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 11

1. Italian insult
2. The is falling!
3. BrEng vs. AmEng
4. pronounce sevillian
5. cougaran

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 13

1. Pronunciation of Bathurst (surname)
2. Does the lack of a language authority in English explain why the spelling has not evolved with the pronunciation?

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 14

1. Double X in Names

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 15

1. Why Mount Sinai, Mount Everest, and not Sinai Mount?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 17

1. About Zhengzhang Shangfang

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 18

1. Modern Hebrew words stressed on the antepenult?
2. Water lanes
3. Number of periods of the Spanish trill?

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 20

1. Comma question

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 21

1. Minor Grammatical difficulties, writing English.

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 23

1. Welsh placename pronunciation
2. What does AFAIK stand for?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 24

1. Aleksei Vysheslavtsev: Russian captions
2. Jack and the Bean talk
3. Accents in Russian orthography

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 26

1. æøå
2. Etymology of French word "Gare"

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 27

1. Etymology of Slavic suffix -ow/-ov
2. Etymology of Slavic suffixes -sk and -ski
3. Etymology of French ne ... pas?
4. Etymology of name Gernsbacher
5. Incomplete epitaph on a gravestone
6. Inclusive terminology in non-English languages
7. Which variant of English is more dominant?
8. Is the word "tweet" a generic trademark?
9. Normality versus normalcy
10. Zwiebelknopffibel in English?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 28

1. Decatur
2. Are these songs sung in Jamaican Patois or Jamaican English?
3. How do you pronounce 'Trachyandra'?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 29

1. "Areal" flood watch ?

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 30

1. French translation