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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 1

1. Spanish b/v, English b/p, Mandarin b/p, Korean b/p

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 2

1. "A few" ... singular or plural?
2. Chinese translations of computer keys
3. "Died in a hospital" – American English?

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 3

1. Hi is there any good site for grammar check for articles
2. Cheburashka
3. Cambridge spelling
4. Female version of Praitōr (Greek)

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 4

1. Tutunick
2. Chinese names for Malaysian cities

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 5

1. How exactly do you read this?
2. German von etw leben

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 6

1. Greek era
2. Phi or chi; which letter came first??

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 7

1. Using the word "of"
2. peruna
3. He/she/it endings of verbs

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 8

1. Use of " and dots

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 9

1. Do young children even have a native language if they are enrolled in an immersion program?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 10

1. Why do foreign language learners sound like robots?
2. Catalan's President?
3. Are there things more alliterative than the Pretty Princess and Penelope Pony Power Hour?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 11

1. Vowel length in "Samoa"

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 13

1. Is there a difference between a speech impediment and an idiosyncratic pronunciation of a normal native speaker?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 14

1. Voiced retroflex fricative/Voiced retroflex sibilant
2. Appropriate translation for Regierungsbaurat
3. Horizontal transmission to a great degree
4. Does language immersion still work when one is surrounded by cows?

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 15

1. Greek
2. Cebuano Wikipedia
3. German "auf etwas kommen"
4. Duck test
5. How to get started on IPA?

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 17

1. How come la caballera doesn't exist as a noun?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 18

1. TV commercial for drug Anoro featuring Fleetwood Mac's song "Go Your Own Way"
2. US Dollar Currency

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 19

1. Not profanity

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 20

1. Ph
2. Is there a term to describe the change in perspective between languages?
3. Commons Category:Paintings by name

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 21

1. Please translate the following German to English.
2. Omission of the definite article
3. German Africa Prize

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 22

1. Are native Arabic speakers required to also know Quranic Arabic?
2. meaning of "great straits"?
3. Use of "that"
4. German inversion = English inversion?
5. Al-Tabari
6. Special term for opposite vertexes of a cube
7. 2014 National Security Agency illegal seizure

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 23

1. Operatic soprano

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 24

1. Cuneiform
2. Turris Babel ædificationis adhortatio linguis sex
3. Verb forms for people using singular "they" pronoun

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 25

1. puit (fr)
2. Beard to the washing
3. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nubia
4. Vowel length

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 26

1. How did men become exclusively male?

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 27

1. Pronunciation of place names by soldiers

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 28

1. p.9
2. Are all high-level languages translated into the same Machine Language?

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 29

1. Apostrophe usage
2. how do you say "been" if you don't use participles for the perfect?
3. trouble pronouncing "one" like QE2 does

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 30

1. Consistent Historical spelling of Greek Letters?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 October 31

1. Scandinavian language ID
2. a sound change of palatal > velar?
3. How can a non-native parent make a dead or constructed language the native language of his child?