Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2017

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 * 1) Trisonic?

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 * 1) Origins of habitual be in AAVE

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 * 1) When were the racial terms derived?

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 4


 * 1) Why do we have Wikipedia?
 * 2) How can such a glaring spelling error be made in Supergirl?

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 5


 * 1) What does the defibrilator do to the heart when it febrilates?
 * 2) Free entry/free admission/free admittance

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 6


 * 1) Sanskrit Kamala and Padma

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 7


 * 1) Homogeneity of variance and mean

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 8


 * 1) Pretentious interview stories
 * 2) IPA pronunciations of Romanian-language names
 * 3) e.g., i.e. and etc. vs eg, ie and etc

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 * 1) Does the German press report crimes of refugees?

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 * 1) Slang use of "hang"
 * 2) Mr. Bean

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 * 1) Phonetic lowering of u to o
 * 2) Alternation
 * 3) But and however

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 13


 * 1) "On aggregate"
 * 2) PIE gender

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 14


 * 1) "broadly sympathize"

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 15


 * 1) Is there a word that means...this...?
 * 2) "No hay salida" and "No exit"
 * 3) Are these expressions right and common?

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 16


 * 1) "Ah" name prefix in Singapore 1960s

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 17


 * 1) How fast is radio news read?
 * 2) English Language: The use of Whom

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 18


 * 1) Symbol for transcribing Chinese
 * 2) Muhammad variants
 * 3) A > E sound change

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 19


 * 1) "dɪfrn one ", instead of "different one ".
 * 2) "beginner" and "starter" are not interchangeable. What about "begin" and "start"?
 * 3) Family names vs. Dynasty names

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 * 1) Solar eclipse of August 18, 1868
 * 2) Egg question

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 21


 * 1) Does Irish gean cánach really exist?
 * 2) Looking for a word/expression

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 23


 * 1) Plural of "mail"
 * 2) French "roselys"

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 24


 * 1) English (UK) grammar

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 25


 * 1) "Write a check for a package of chewing gum"
 * 2) Slang for "recreational drug"
 * 3) Origin of the phrase "when a man and a woman love each other very much..."
 * 4) My project.....

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 * 1) Spanish/Catalan translation of bulb review
 * 2) When Latin decayed as language of science

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 27


 * 1) Quotation marks vs. italicized text; 'meaning' vs. 'which means'; comma vs. parentheses
 * 2) Accent vs dialect
 * 3) Define language

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 * 1) Research on Hempl's theory

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 April 30


 * 1) Opposites of Greek-derived words beginning with `H`
 * 2) Alternatives to classifying speakers by number of languages