Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2018

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 1


 * 1) What is the origin of the word "banya" (sauna)?
 * 2) English reform spelling
 * 3) french j'etais vs j'ai ete
 * 4) Deciphering Latin lyrics from a song

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 3


 * 1) Sports team names in American v. British English
 * 2) Danes talking in Danish to Swedes answering in Swedish?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 4


 * 1) What is the etymology of the Aramic root "גני or גנא"?
 * 2) Why is the English language so easy?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 5


 * 1) causa vivendi

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 6


 * 1) Help fix a mistranslation
 * 2) Dream come true / Nightmare come true - Grammar
 * 3) C16 Dutch and French
 * 4) German: using 'Bundesland' for referring to the whole country

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 8


 * 1) What are the structures of this specific collocation: "there is" and "there are" called in grammatical or linguistic terminology?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 9


 * 1) Star Wars etymology
 * 2) Express location of something in a shelf
 * 3) Do illiterate English speakers struggle with initialisms?
 * 4) "fall short of" or "fall short behind"
 * 5) Ship/sheep in Scottish English

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 11


 * 1) the meaning of "as"
 * 2) Definition of decadent

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 12


 * 1) Ologies, and similar words

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 14


 * 1) Film cliche phrases
 * 2) Pronouncing inherit like "in-HER-it", i.e. /ɪn'hərɪt/ instead of  /ɪn'herɪt/.

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 15


 * 1) Etymology of the name Potemkin?

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 17


 * 1) abconterfet

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 18


 * 1) Vowel in dog
 * 2) Foreign word sort of similar to admiration
 * 3) Goes like the clappers
 * 4) Help with Chinedum Ndukwe

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 19


 * 1) IPA to speech
 * 2) Chinese R and L sound
 * 3) Is there any relation between the shape of niqqud to their vowels?
 * 4) Better Call Saul... Is this a  wordplay?

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 20


 * 1) Why is there no "funnest"?

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 21


 * 1) No Laughing Matter
 * 2) retronym

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 22


 * 1) Does the "free" in "The Free Encyclopedia" mean "liberation" or "cost no money"?
 * 2) Yiddish questions

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 24


 * 1) Singular or plural verb in "Shingles" article?
 * 2) Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen
 * 3) Einwohner (de)
 * 4) Budrio / Heunburg

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 25


 * 1) Geman speakers
 * 2) "Runs paper for a bookmaker" - American

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 27


 * 1) History of as...as and so...as
 * 2) Bieberbach etymology/meaning in German

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 28


 * 1) Software for teaching pronunciation?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 30


 * 1) ポプテピピック (Pop Team Epic) article at the Japanese Wikipedia

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 May 31


 * 1) What is the meaning of "soy"?
 * 2) Inordinately