Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2024

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 1

1. That or Which?

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 2

1. Term for opening synthetic raffia string

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 3

1. "if ... then" stranding

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 5

1. Questions

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 6

1. What is a gange?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 8

1. A joke non-natives may not understand
2. “There is to me” possession

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 9

1. Why I see you are a bee, or in brief: Y.I.C.U.R.A.B.
2. Dental fricatives

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 10

1. Phrase construction with alone adjectives

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 11

1. Spark out
2. "a hornet's nest" v. "a hornets' nest"

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 12

1. What is the correct way to say this?

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 15

1. Spelling of non-English names--who decides?

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 16

1. Swapping V and W

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 17

1. succession vs accession
2. Dutch phrase "ga je gang"

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 18

1. Past participle of "to burn"

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 19

1. Do Americans typically pronounce "Bologna" (the place) as "Baloney"?
2. Homophone-like combinations
3. English questions

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 20

1. Usage of 'Du' in German
2. Latin alphabet

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 22

1. Monogenesis hypothesis
2. What does M/S mean in front of Indian company names?

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 24

1. Full stops in Chinese textbook

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 25

1. Telescopic ladder

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 26

1. Hungarians: Is EMMA (Women’s Association for Birth Rights in Hungary) an acronym?
2. What is this called and why does it happen?

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 27

1. Removing "incidental mentions of authors"

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 28

1. Questions

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 29

1. Surname ordering
2. Slavic(?) "starting to do (something)"
3. translation for German word "Aktus"

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 30

1. Gulag
2. Pre-Latin Native American translation
3. New questions

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 January 31

1. The term "The Old Man" for the 30 yo captain in "Das Boot" - mistranslation?
2. Pronunciation of zoo- words