Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2024

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 * 1) Tank legend
 * 2) Deventer pronunciation

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 * 1) Why is Tresckow pronounced like -cow and and not -coff
 * 2) Chandrabindu

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 * 1) invisible word breaks in Chinese
 * 2) Russian sentence?

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 * 1) Latin

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 * 1) Theatre jargon

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 * 1) Questions again

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 * 1) English variety where "what it's" is grammatical
 * 2) -er

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 * 1) "United States customary units"

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 * 1) Talk the hind legs off a donkey
 * 2) "accidents and conveniences"

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 * 1) Pangram

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 * 1) vowel length contrast

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 * 1) Numbers

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 * 1) The NATO phonetic alphabet is prescriptive, not descriptive
 * 2) occupation-derived names
 * 3) English article

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 * 1) Three questions
 * 2) "Wouldn't you like to know?" origin/occurrence

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 * 1) Before non-Protestant churches switched to vernacular
 * 2) Voltan or Voltaic?

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 * 1) Root vs rowt

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 * 1) Jargon
 * 2) Paris, Peru.....Iraq, Iran....

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 * 1) Can someone’s native language affect how they hear other languages?