Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2008
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- Pronunciation: IPA for the word "anole"
- Corrected colloquialisms: "proof in the pudding"
- Robert Bly poem
- Sounds: dental, alveolar, and postalveolar
- [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 March 3#Rounded lips during {{iPA.7C.5Bʃ.5D}} and {{iPA.7C.5Bʒ.5D}}|Rounded lips during [ʃ] and [ʒ]]]
- Knowledge of communication skills in discussions
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- Most heavily punctuated sentence
- Saffron and "bastard saffron"
- Identifying poem and poet: a spider and a watch
- Deünhille
- Latin phrase: "in cauda venenum"
- Correct wording: film credits under an assumed name
- These versus those
- Word choice: using big impressive words
- How do you say mouse in Japanese?
- Punctuation: use of the slash in complex cases
- Hyphenation in complex cases
- "Needs cleaned"
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- Japanese honorifics
- Whoever or whomever?
- bouquet, or bouguet?
- Success/downfall: one word meaning both?
- Latin term for a specific legal concept
- Google as a verb: ever intransitive?
- Please assist: pay rates for transcribing audio?
- Lebanese (Arabic) translation
- Punctuation in headings: a full stop at the end?
- Asking the impossible