Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2016

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February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 2

1. Spelling of La Guardia

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 3

1. Avestan script
2. Are these the same: "it's quite the contrary/reverse/opposite"?

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 4

1. "Suspending" U.S. presidential campaigns
2. Heng (letter)
3. Study of time
4. "Half-wave rectification" or "Half wave rectification"?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 7

1. French circumflex

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 8

1. Part of speech types and acronyms
2. Is survived by or was survived by?
3. Mardol
4. Is there an English idiom for this?

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 9

1. Pronunciation of surname Appice
2. Japanese: meaning of Toyo, like in Toyo university, Toyota, Tōyō kanji

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 11

1. Long-fingering
2. the thingness of things
3. Assignment of Gender

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 12

1. Warranty & Guarantee
2. Affects vs. effects

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 13

1. Question asked at WP:RPP
2. Origin of the given name "jessica"
3. Catch someone's attention
4. Retarded meaning delayed

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 14

1. What is the correct word? Which, who, or that?

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 15

1. Auteur as an adjective
2. Old English

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 16

1. Grossepelas

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 17

1. Words about size in English

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 19

1. Re: Avestan
2. Inverted question and exclamation marks

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 20

1. between … to

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 21

1. Formality of "get to do something"
2. Excessive comma?
3. Developing
4. Am I happy with who I am?
5. Placement of apostrophe

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 22

1. Tunisian Arabic

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 23

1. Tense, mood, aspect, and ordering
2. North African Saïd Aouita, etc.
3. Pronunciation of "avoirdupois"
4. Origin of the name Karolinska Institutet

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 24

1. Mongrel pronunciations

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 26

1. 500 year old English poem
2. Person + wanderlust

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 27

1. CJK font size
2. Hebrew gimel typography

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 28

1. "Volatility" as a term in Chemistry

February 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 29

1. T-V distinction in Hebrew
2. Misread Latin word
3. Colon or semi-colon?
4. Is this a recent language change?
5. A Germanic gender