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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 1

1. Questions
2. Name of Swiss inventor

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 2

1. Determinants of accents in a neutral environmental setting

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 3

1. /ts/ and /pf/
2. Standard way of speaking in english

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 5

1. Is 'its' considered a valid alternative for 'it's'

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 6

1. Compound Adjectives

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 10

1. Pronunciation of Tyen
2. Coinage of Zoombombing

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 12

1. Questions 2
2. Languages in censuses
3. Odd- and even-numbered day
4. Is this construction correct?

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 13

1. Past tense

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 14

1. Ripping (digital media) origin
2. Sense origin of (rhetorical) frame
3. Muzan's speech

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 15

1. No lorem. No ipsum. No dolor. No sit. Just amet.

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 16

1. Word function identification

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 17

1. What's the English term for an advocate of scientism?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 18

1. Meaning of "sanies"?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 21

1. Imperfect and conditional

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 24

1. Discussion at Talk:Aubrey Plaza § RfC: Do brackets interfere with readability of a direct quotation?

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 25

1. Next night
2. Answering the phone by saying a phone number

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 28

1. Japanese Railway Stations

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 October 29

1. "Captain" no matter the rank.