Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2025

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December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 4

1. English questions
2. Romanizations

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 7

1. Why do these similar words, used in the same context, require different forms of the following verb?

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 10

1. Written off?

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 11

1. Cease and Desist

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 21

1. Ending a phrase with "that"

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 22

1. Paradise Lost, ‘Transprots’

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 23

1. Questions
2. The French surname “Maige"

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 26

1. Xmas or Xtianity

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 27

1. TAME and markedness

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 28

1. New Words from Industrial Revolution

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 December 30

1. Pronunciation for Jamaica