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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 1

  1. in different social terms
  2. Japanese Pitch Accent
  3. Steinway / Stainway?

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 3

  1. IPA sounds of ei and ai diphthongs
  2. Never confuse movement with action
  3. Cervantes
  4. Assistance needed with Dutch referencing issue

April 4

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  1. Today's (4th April) featured article intro ("named to")

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 5

  1. Alloy with a W
  2. any time a man can feel that, not counting where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 6

  1. Latin-alphabet languages that don't use diacritics very much
  2. Languages having a preposition for the Accusative relation.

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 9

  1. Formula of three half-sentences
  2. Origin of phrase: this will hurt me more than it hurts you

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 11

  1. What is this symbol

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 12

  1. Translate into Latin

April 13

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  1. Kociątko Miauczenieński

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 14

  1. The surname for J. T. Realmuto needs transcription into the IPA

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 15

  1. Common mistakes for beginners when speaking Russian

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 16

  1. Number of native English root words

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 19

  1. Finnish Agent Participle

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 20

  1. When did pants become more common than trousers in American English?
  2. Chinese language

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 21

  1. Why is the name Qyburn in Game of Thrones writen by Q?

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 22

  1. Words get worse
  2. Final stress in Russian
  3. Tamil: National Thowheeth Jama'ath external links

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 23

  1. G-dropping
  2. Polish el

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 24

  1. Meaning of "Lilii Borea"

April 25

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  1. Poorly worded sentence can lead to confusion, and contradicting statements between pages
  2. author as a verb

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 27

  1. Describing an individual

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 28

  1. Latin a manuscript from 1343 (?)
  2. Is "finite" the only English word (not being a compound) that is pronounced /CaɪCaɪC/, C denoting any consonant (unnecessarily a constant one)?
  3. Is "unnecessarily" the only English word whose stress is on the fifth last syllable?
  4. Origin of macron and circumflex

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 29

  1. Name for speech error?
  2. Arabic in Comoros

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 April 30

  1. ENGVAR and two-wheeled human-propelled vehicles
  2. "Nope"
  3. Another ENGVAR question: "from 1990"