Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2023

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 1


 * 1) German May Day
 * 2) Ivan with an "ee" or "ai"

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 2


 * 1) Icelandic, Esperanto
 * 2) Understanding a foreign language text
 * 3) Envelope vs. ensemble

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 3


 * 1) English verbs
 * 2) Below par

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 5


 * 1) Get 'a' divorce
 * 2) Cartellverband
 * 3) Why does Sunday have a special name in Chinese?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 7


 * 1) A rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 9


 * 1) Russian propaganda lessons
 * 2) Questions
 * 3) Open central unrounced vowel

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 11


 * 1) dif [Balkan Slavic langs]
 * 2) American Umlaut

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 12


 * 1) Redundancy problem
 * 2) "Pig's feet" vs. "pig feet", etc.

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 13


 * 1) Falling diphthongs in Romance languages
 * 2) Does Rhoticity still exist in Welsh English?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 15


 * 1) Different words for laughing and crying
 * 2) Embryo and fetus in Greek
 * 3) A few questions

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 16


 * 1) Fictional Latin Footnote

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 18


 * 1) It's I or It's me??

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 20


 * 1) Use of K for C
 * 2) When are halves plural, and why?
 * 3) "Hurrah" stays the same; "hurray" becomes "hooray"
 * 4) Some questions
 * 5) "scarce" pronounced with the vowel of "air"

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 21


 * 1) Abandoned

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 22


 * 1) Pronouns with 2 possible referents
 * 2) Could a Norwegian speaker please translate eMMa's newest music video into English? Title: Over Deg
 * 3) Translation of Latin text
 * 4) Swedish Who's Who
 * 5) Possessive forms of corps
 * 6) Old chinese

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 23


 * 1) Aren't all languages related to one another?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 24


 * 1) X after X, plural or not?
 * 2) Number questions

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 25


 * 1) "Figuratively" (and "temporarily" in GA/RP  and "laboratory" in GA and "militarily" in RP/UK and "necessarily" in RP), the stress being on the first syllable out of five (at least). Does English have any other such word?

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 26


 * 1) Vowel system

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 27


 * 1) Minor but puzzling naming
 * 2) mature

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 28


 * 1) Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre
 * 2) English language construct where adverb position matters

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 29


 * 1) Vowel questions

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 30


 * 1) Sapphic thoughts
 * 2) Question about assimilation

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 May 31


 * 1) Did 17th and 18th-century British English (Early Modern and Modern English) sound similar to West Country English, the Lancashire dialect, or the Northumbrian dialect?