Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2024

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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 1

  1. Kahulla
  2. Tocharian /n/

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 2

  1. What word is Eeyore misremembering?
  2. Another questions

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 3

  1. Mo(i)ses
  2. Confusing phrase in 1984

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 5

  1. Does anyone know what this charcter is?

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 6

  1. Japanese

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 7

  1. Why was English more wordy the further in the past?
  2. raisu in Japanese

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 8

  1. Ligier?

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 9

  1. Questions

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 10

  1. Old word pronouncer

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 11

  1. Pronunciation questions

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 13

  1. Not to change the subject ...
  2. Translation?
  3. Do you have in mind any simple example of a useful English word, being both a noun and an adjective and a verb?
  4. Questions again

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 15

  1. Have never vs. never have
  2. Interchange of /ɪks/ and /ɛks/, while pronouncing the prefix (initial) "ex" of English words.

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 17

  1. mercurial breasted
  2. Tobacco smoke enema
  3. Letter usage

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 19

  1. Why do these characters sound so different?
  2. Appositive pronoun cases
  3. Translation of a Ukrainian memorial plaque, please?

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 23

  1. James is having an effect on the teacher since Monday.

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 24

  1. Relative prosodic length of a long vowel in Arabic: 2x or 3x a short vowel?

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 25

  1. Ducks in a row

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 26

  1. Wordplay type?

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 29

  1. "Moon" in Slavic languages

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 March 30

  1. two 'k's
  2. Exploring "nuclear" and the fact that the word is not "nucular"