Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 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.

September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 1

1. Channel surfing, zapping during the radio days

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 3

1. What is a sense of epigonentum when it's at home?
2. Th-

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 4

1. Fool's errand

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 5

1. Coals to Newcastle

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 6

1. Latvian names

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 7

1. Dreikäsehoch

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 10

1. Alex Ovechkin spy commercial

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 11

1. Rectifying my Urdu accent
2. How do American children learn English when they are young?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 12

1. 64-point compass

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 13

1. Does U ever come before V in a word that is not a derivative of Latin juvenis??
2. Allied rock-wallaby

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 14

1. How many Xs?
2. Conjugation of "plead"
3. Psycho-vegetative stress

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 16

1. Hello tweeps!

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 19

1. Consonant digraphs

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 20

1. Battle of Bastogne

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 21

1. Branch stacking

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 22

1. terminology in split ergativity
2. Living outside
3. Productive letter groups

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 23

1. What exactly does "anointment" mean, in the context of US politics?
2. I'm curious about a Chinese (most probably) writing

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 24

1. The in front of abbreviations
2. Current labels for or types of capitalism

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 25

1. MOS:SAMESURNAME and similar names

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 26

1. Swiss French accent?
2. Restrict toward?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 29

1. Curfew commander

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 September 30

1. Movie that has events both before and after a movie it's from the franchise of