Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2018

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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 1

1. What is the origin of the word "banya" (sauna)?
2. English reform spelling
3. french j'etais vs j'ai ete
4. Deciphering Latin lyrics from a song

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 3

1. Sports team names in American v. British English
2. Danes talking in Danish to Swedes answering in Swedish?

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 4

1. What is the etymology of the Aramic root "גני or גנא"?
2. Why is the English language so easy?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 5

1. causa vivendi

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 6

1. Help fix a mistranslation
2. Dream come true / Nightmare come true - Grammar
3. C16 Dutch and French
4. German: using 'Bundesland' for referring to the whole country

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 8

1. What are the structures of this specific collocation: "there is" and "there are" called in grammatical or linguistic terminology?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 9

1. Star Wars etymology
2. Express location of something in a shelf
3. Do illiterate English speakers struggle with initialisms?
4. "fall short of" or "fall short behind"
5. Ship/sheep in Scottish English

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 11

1. the meaning of "as"
2. Definition of decadent

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 12

1. Ologies, and similar words

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 14

1. Film cliche phrases
2. Pronouncing inherit like "in-HER-it", i.e. /ɪn'hərɪt/ instead of /ɪn'herɪt/.

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 15

1. Etymology of the name Potemkin?

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 17

1. abconterfet

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 18

1. Vowel in dog
2. Foreign word sort of similar to admiration
3. Goes like the clappers
4. Help with Chinedum Ndukwe

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 19

1. IPA to speech
2. Chinese R and L sound
3. Is there any relation between the shape of niqqud to their vowels?
4. Better Call Saul... Is this a wordplay?

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 20

1. Why is there no "funnest"?

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 21

1. No Laughing Matter
2. retronym

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 22

1. Does the "free" in "The Free Encyclopedia" mean "liberation" or "cost no money"?
2. Yiddish questions

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 24

1. Singular or plural verb in "Shingles" article?
2. Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen
3. Einwohner (de)
4. Budrio / Heunburg

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 25

1. Geman speakers
2. "Runs paper for a bookmaker" - American

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 27

1. History of as...as and so...as
2. Bieberbach etymology/meaning in German

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 28

1. Software for teaching pronunciation?

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 30

1. ポプテピピック (Pop Team Epic) article at the Japanese Wikipedia

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 31

1. What is the meaning of "soy"?
2. Inordinately