Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2020

Welcome to the Wikipedia Language Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 2

1. What would be a Chinese name that sounds similar to Hunter Biden?

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 3

1. Slurs for Swiss people

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 4

1. Electoral - pronunciation

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 6

1. Non-western signatures
2. Salting in ancient languages
3. Guy Fawkes

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 8

1. "Toissa"

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 10

1. Combining titles?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 11

1. Exemplary behaviour
2. Verbs that converge in spelling when -ing is added

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 12

1. When Adam delved

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 14

1. knish and kneytshn

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 15

1. Using the term "postwar"
2. How to pronounce "Monstercat" in American English?

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 16

1. Why is the subject of an imperative sentence that mentions someone's name the implied you?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 18

1. There is a variety of..., or there are?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 19

1. Pirate speech

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 20

1. Starting an e-mail in Danish

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 21

1. Namesake

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 22

1. Google Books
2. Phonetic pangram in French

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 24

1. Amiga

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 29

1. Better word for "primitive"
2. Eve of Demolition

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 November 30

1. "not less than" vs "at least"
2. Comparative adverbs