Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2020

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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 1

1. Smith did rob the bank

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 3

1. Tigran as Armenian given name

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 6

1. Some words from Mexican Spanish

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 8

1. Oo ah

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 10

1. Japanese female names

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 13

1. Metaphors that become so ingrained that no-one thinks of them as metaphors
2. For Spanish linguists

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 14

1. Latin translation
2. I love me some mashed potatoes!
3. An England

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 17

1. Illegitimate children being referred to as natural children
2. Italian artist
3. Word equivalent using "-phile" suffix

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 18

1. pronouncing Chrysophylax Dives

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 19

1. Subsequent married name
2. PDM
3. Rock vs. stone

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 20

1. Have Native American languages retained the original words for extinct animals like mammoths?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 21

1. "A" as a letter and article

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 22

1. Admiral
2. What is this? (help from Chinese speakers)
3. Citation style
4. Why did the first name "Love" for girls fall out of use in English-speaking countries over the last two or three centuries?

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 23

1. Des nuits d'amour à plus finir
2. Thompson language
3. Need help translating a footnote from French to English

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 25

1. Czech question

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 26

1. San Franciscan, HIV
2. How do you say Empanada or Taqueria in Chinese?

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 28

1. Translating from American Sign Language

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 29

1. New Zealand suburbs

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 30

1. "user has near native speaker knowledge of English"