Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2018

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 1

1. הריסון vs. האריסון: What is the difference in Hebrew?
2. Qualifiers for the acronym POTUS
3. whoomper
4. Hittite claimed to be "Ancient Armenian" at article Aryan

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 2

1. Location, location, location
2. What does "eighth smallest" mean?

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 3

1. Languages using the beginning of the word to determine the stressed syllable

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 4

1. Poodle
2. Ancient Greece
3. Is there or was there a disease so called in Greek "Hadroken/ Hadrokan/ Hydroken/ Hydrokan/ hedroken/ hadrokan"
4. Cocilendrum

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 5

1. Etymology of Spanish grebe words

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 6

1. English punctuation

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 7

1. Philandrous philanderers
2. Back to back
3. "thin-faced"
4. Rider (legislation)
5. Comparison of Spanish and Portuguese: definite articles

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 8

1. German vs. English word order
2. New question about F and V

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 9

1. Is "šúš·u-" which is Central Sierra Miwok (CSM) spelled "ʃɯʃ'ɯː" in IPA correctly?
2. Is there a vocalizer for creating audio based on typing in IPA?
3. English grammar: generic masculine

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 10

1. Pronunciation of "Hessian"

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 11

1. What was this 1980s card-reading device for teaching speech sounds?

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 12

1. English punctuation: Madness! ... Madness!

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 13

1. Latin translation
2. Most natural wording in German
3. Centrum

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 14

1. what do the dashes and accents mean and how to you write them in IPA for Central Sierra Miwok words?

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 15

1. "Like Billio"

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 16

1. Hyphen in object–verbal noun compound
2. Hyphens for this sentence?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 18

1. Finding Indian proverb
2. How do you alphabetize when a person has two last names?

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 19

1. Geschlechtsverkehrfreunde

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 21

1. The word “that”

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 22

1. Is there a generic term for these baby bottles?
2. Hindi Wikipedia
3. Word order with "too"
4. Translation sought for German etwas hinter sich bringen

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 24

1. Not even wrong
2. Term for both "divorce" and "legal separation"

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 27

1. Speaker of tonal language learning language 'without' tones

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 28

1. Accentuation of maíz
2. Reglos

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 31

1. Vowel inverses