Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2018

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 1

1. What is the "s" of third person singular verbs called in English grammar terminology?

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 2

1. Lobby broom

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 4

1. So

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 6

1. Decriminalisation of suicide and the continued use of "commit"
2. most unlikely superstar celebrity
3. Proserinum -detecting of a medication name etymology

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 7

1. Drama queen
2. A (Preferably popular) English bible translation, broken down into parts of speech?
3. Bricken

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 9

1. Demonym
2. The People have spoken, the bastards
3. Š-L-M in Latin
4. Translation for "bei jdm landen"

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 12

1. Latin letters in Greek
2. Over... over you

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 13

1. Verbing weirds the language

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 14

1. debut novel vs first novel
2. Transliteration from latin alphabet to cyrillic Alphanet
3. "Navigate necesse est, vivere non"

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 15

1. How many grammar rules are needed for speaking a language?

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 16

1. Pound sign as letter
2. Name that rhetorical technique

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 17

1. twist
2. Kun readings for Korean place names

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 18

1. "The first since..."

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 19

1. German

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 20

1. Kyrgyz or Kirghiz ?
2. "Feature" as a verb

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 21

1. Etymology of the Persian word peri
2. Continuity between the speakers of PIE of the 5th-4th millenium BC and the Scythians of the 1st millenium BC?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 23

1. Potable
2. What is this game called?

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 24

1. Name of a language

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 25

1. The Yanks are coming
2. The words "ruthless" and "ruth"
3. Word for "Orphan" in Farsi

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 26

1. Korean ‘hyeong’ among women
2. "One Fewer" or "One Less"?

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 27

1. Korean "-ni"

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 28

1. British English and American English philatelic terms
2. Nato phonetic alphabet symbols

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 29

1. Each sauce / all sauces
2. Usally a writer would use a/an ....tone for a nwespaper
3. An opportunity to improve the Coat of arms of Riga with this source.
4. Plural of Manx

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 June 30

1. Illegal, irregular