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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 1

  1. Claudit semper fenestram antequam cenat
  2. Guitbass
  3. Why do Canadians sound like Americans?

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 2

  1. Sweet Dreams are made of...?
  2. Resources for writing style

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 4

  1. Why is there a city called Nyala in Sudan
  2. Explain a joke
  3. Malay phrase "sikit sikit lama lama jadi bukit"
  4. Why website not English version but company and product names still in English?

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 5

  1. Possible Murray-Merry and Kerry-Curry merger or reversal
  2. Rat-arsed
  3. How can IPA represent general nasalization?
  4. Short translation

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 6

  1. Crocide
  2. asshole

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 7

  1. Adjective to describe event that didn't happen
  2. Italian proficiency certificate
  3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  4. Cyrillic translation please

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 8

  1. "Équitable et transparente"
  2. Are both sentences right?
  3. Korean surnames

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 9

  1. why is Greece not named Hellas in English?
  2. de question is...
  3. PRC's "Outstanding Domestic Animated Series" this (or past) quarter
  4. Br English "ageing"

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 12

  1. Zhang Mi 張泌/张泌

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 13

  1. Handwriting
  2. How do I officially get a word changed?

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 14

  1. "It"
  2. Min Chinese possibly?
  3. Feeling blue
  4. Turning old w into modern v
  5. Longest English word
  6. What is "pay in black"?

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 15

  1. Deceased person's name in red
  2. "Yea, buns, and buns, and buns!"
  3. Narrowing as a verb?

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 16

  1. The "day" part of Chinese dates
  2. Word that did sounds like swout and means hinder

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 17

  1. Wheel war
  2. Traditional vs simplified Chinese?
  3. Macrofamily

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 18

  1. Mayors of Yazd
  2. Language in signs: Cyrillic Mongolian or Russian?
  3. English usage question...
  4. Name for non-face cards in a deck

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 19

  1. Hamadan Terminal

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 20

  1. How did “like” change from a noun meaning “body” to the modern verb?
  2. Finger thing

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 21

  1. How did British and American English come to differ?
  2. Bad Man
  3. All said and done

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 23

  1. Another Term for Strategic Thinker
  2. Are people illiterate if their native language does not have a written form?

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 24

  1. Written varieties of Chinese
  2. Youku video menu
  3. Sometimes They Come Back: sea and sunsets
  4. semantic primes

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 25

  1. "Da mache ich nicht mit!"
  2. Ambonese - Amboyna

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 27

  1. fried hardware
  2. Evgeny or Yevgeny?

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 28

  1. United States of America(n) Armed Forces
  2. Diocese and its plural
  3. the blue yonder
  4. Does "far" mean "falling"?
  5. Rephrase