Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2024

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June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 3

1. "accidents and conveniences" (May 15)
2. Why are placenames are not pronounced the same everywhere?

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 4

1. How many solutions of perfect pangram exist?
2. Why are English, Indonesian & Malay the closest natural languages to ISO Basic Latin alphabet?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 6

1. More-than-full rhyme

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 7

1. Use of "buttery" out of control
2. how to write reports
3. Strange expressions

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 8

1. Non-most important subgroup of people

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 9

1. Fully and digitally transcribed hieroglyphic texts
2. Does Latin contain the letter J?

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 10

1. anti-epicene?

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 11

1. skill vs technique
2. On the name of antimony
3. Questions

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 13

1. This looks like gruesome English to me

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 14

1. Kirinomitake
2. How many chemical elements start with the same letter in the romanization of all of these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Indonesian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 16

1. Is Huangci a legitimate Han Chinese two-syllable surname or is it something else?

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 17

1. Tirwedd Cenedlaethol (Welsh mutations)
2. Latin alphabet

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 18

1. Île Verte (Grenoble)
2. Klingon

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 19

1. What proportion of people in the world have less than 127 different persons within the 7 consanguinities?
2. Different words for metro (public transport system)

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 22

1. poem about radical chic (?)

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 24

1. Lee Sung Jin’s name in the Korean alphabet

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 26

1. Verb for an enlisted man leaving the US Merchant Marines

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 June 27

1. Pronounciation of "Archangel"
2. People or persons?