Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2023

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 1

1. Which is correct?
2. cɔzit
3. Lipogram, Rebeccah Giltrow's Twenty-Six Degrees
4. Word "Grand Prix"
5. Mysterious "L" in citations
6. Gandhi, not Ghandi

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 2

1. Takbir

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 3

1. /aɪ/ in England

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 4

1. Identifying an American accent
2. Three questions

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 6

1. purpose of spacing diaeresis
2. Pronunciation in a Metallica song

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 7

1. Questions

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 8

1. A person who quarrels, shouts for silly reason
2. Mardi Gras
3. In which languages these could be words?
4. Spanish-language equivalent of certain sources

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 9

1. Uddannelseskabale
2. Two questions

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 10

1. Book translation for Roger Masson

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 11

1. Diphthong question

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 12

1. Syria, vs. Libya.

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 13

1. Shears and goose
2. Enumeration

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 14

1. LLM's and linguistic theory

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 15

1. Becoming
2. Possessive form of "mathematics"
3. Stress of words ending in -ative

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 16

1. Chinese names

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 17

1. Seeking a German to English translation of part of a video
2. Past-related and future-related words with no counterparts
3. Is it true 2 of the fake words in the "fatal joke" became real German words?

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 18

1. Questions

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 20

1. Verbal noun

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 21

1. "The French copy nobody, and nobody copies the French."

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 22

1. How related is West Country English and Southern American English?
2. Touching down

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 24

1. Mivvi

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 27

1. Spanish verbs
2. Dutch vowels

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 28

1. Arabic: a word in the Quran

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 June 30

1. Gairaigo
2. C and Ä