Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2020

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 * 1) Comma usage

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 * 1) "Explain a new commerce"

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 * 1) Doesn't take an Einstein to answer this question
 * 2) Scarabotto

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 * 1) the Chinese diaspora
 * 2) "Little help"

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 * 1) Sumerian
 * 2) Etymology of Arabic 'Sartan'
 * 3) Say boo to a goose

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 * 1) Question tags

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 * 1) /ð/ in Sanskrit?

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 * 1) The or a

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 * 1) Rodney Dangerfield
 * 2) Ancient Germanic term for non-Celtic, non-Roman foreigners?
 * 3) Affecting a local pronunciation of place names, personal names, etc
 * 4) Scathing early 20th century book about English language "misuse"
 * 5) Direct translation for "eggy" in any European language
 * 6) Comparing the age of things and persons
 * 7) Is there any "technical" difference between the two: listing years with a slash or a hyphen

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 * 1) Naya Rivera pronunciation?

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 * 1) Stress in 3-syllable words

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 * 1) Tobacco Act 1608 Golf Act 1158 Act to Amend Basic Law 1940 LegCo Act 1997

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 * 1) Too possessive?

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 * 1) Cot–caught–cou(r)t distinction

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 * 1) Pronunciation of Euro

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 * 1) Trisyllabic laxing

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 * 1) Chinese translation request

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 * 1) Sasana

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 * 1) Evolution
 * 2) common bilingualisms

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 * 1) Swedish question
 * 2) Spanish, French, German

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 * 1) Sic semper tyrannis

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 * 1) Lord You-know-who (from Harry Potter)
 * 2) Third-person singular simple present indicative form

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 * 1) Leiden Conventions