Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2018

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January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 2

1. "Outside is snowing"
2. Words containing the same number of letters as their numerical value

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 3

1. All of them are

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 4

1. "Gonna"
2. Use of "the" before a race or nationality
3. Chinese questions
4. German wagen in English

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 6

1. Ohium
2. East Asian names
3. Predicative adjective?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 8

1. Japanese vs. Hungarian personal names

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 9

1. Can one use "to do" to intensify a modal verb in English?
2. St. Thomas and Prince

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 10

1. Chinese/Manchu word ’ha’hachutsze
2. International Phonetic Alphabet - English Approximations are really American English Approximations
3. "To have oneself be ..."?

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 11

1. Is "engagement" just the modern term of the archaic "betrothal"?
2. Los Tres Calaveras

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 14

1. Apostrophe in "girl's basketball"
2. Achoo in Japanese

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 15

1. Japan elaborate manhole covers
2. Is "latter" an adjective or a noun??

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 18

1. Paczki in Canadian Oxford Dictionary
2. Hindi translate pls

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 19

1. What figure of speech is this?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 21

1. She's True... of what?

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 23

1. Scoff who may
2. Chinese to POJ

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 24

1. Universidad EAFIT
2. Why are there no male coeds?

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 25

1. Francophone needed

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 26

1. H. Congreso de la Unión

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 28

1. "Dog food novelties"

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 29

1. What are the pronunciations?

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 30

1. 'Wane' = 'grow smaller'

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 31

1. Multicultural kids' accent
2. Is there a proper definition of what a human is?