Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2016

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 * 1) Spelling of La Guardia

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 * 1) Avestan script
 * 2) Are these the same: "it's quite the contrary/reverse/opposite"?

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 * 1) "Suspending" U.S. presidential campaigns
 * 2) Heng (letter)
 * 3) Study of time
 * 4) "Half-wave rectification" or "Half wave rectification"?

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 * 1) French circumflex

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 8


 * 1) Part of speech types and acronyms
 * 2) Is survived by or was survived by?
 * 3) Mardol
 * 4) Is there an English idiom for this?

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 * 1) Pronunciation of surname Appice
 * 2) Japanese: meaning of Toyo, like in Toyo university, Toyota, Tōyō kanji

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 * 1) Long-fingering
 * 2) the thingness of things
 * 3) Assignment of Gender

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 12


 * 1) Warranty & Guarantee
 * 2) Affects vs. effects

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 13


 * 1) Question asked at WP:RPP
 * 2) Origin of the given name "jessica"
 * 3) Catch someone's attention
 * 4) Retarded meaning delayed

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 * 1) What is the correct word?  Which, who, or that?

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 15


 * 1) Auteur as an adjective
 * 2) Old English

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 16


 * 1) Grossepelas

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 * 1) Words about size in English

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 19


 * 1) Re: Avestan
 * 2) Inverted question and exclamation marks

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 * 1) between … to

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 * 1) Formality of "get to do something"
 * 2) Excessive comma?
 * 3) Developing
 * 4) Am I happy with who I am?
 * 5) Placement of apostrophe

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 * 1) Tunisian Arabic

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 * 1) Tense, mood, aspect, and ordering
 * 2) North African Saïd Aouita, etc.
 * 3) Pronunciation of "avoirdupois"
 * 4) Origin of the name Karolinska Institutet

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 * 1) Mongrel pronunciations

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 26


 * 1) 500 year old English poem
 * 2) Person + wanderlust

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 27


 * 1) CJK font size
 * 2) Hebrew gimel typography

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 28


 * 1) "Volatility" as a term in Chemistry

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 February 29


 * 1) T-V distinction in Hebrew
 * 2) Misread Latin word
 * 3) Colon or semi-colon?
 * 4) Is this a recent language change?
 * 5) A Germanic gender