Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2020

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 1


 * 1) Smith did rob the bank

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 3


 * 1) Tigran as Armenian given name

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 6


 * 1) Some words from Mexican Spanish

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 8


 * 1) Oo ah

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 10


 * 1) Japanese female names

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 13


 * 1) Metaphors that become so ingrained that no-one thinks of them as metaphors
 * 2) For Spanish linguists

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 14


 * 1) Latin translation
 * 2) I love me some mashed potatoes!
 * 3) An England

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 17


 * 1) Illegitimate children being referred to as natural children
 * 2) Italian artist
 * 3) Word equivalent using "-phile" suffix

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 18


 * 1) pronouncing Chrysophylax Dives

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 19


 * 1) Subsequent married name
 * 2) PDM
 * 3) Rock vs. stone

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 20


 * 1) Have Native American languages retained the original words for extinct animals like mammoths?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 21


 * 1) "A" as a letter and article

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 22


 * 1) Admiral
 * 2) What is this? (help from Chinese speakers)
 * 3) Citation style
 * 4) Why did the first name "Love" for girls fall out of use in English-speaking countries over the last two or three centuries?

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 23


 * 1) Des nuits d'amour à plus finir
 * 2) Thompson language
 * 3) Need help translating a footnote from French to English

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 25


 * 1) Czech question

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 26


 * 1) San Franciscan, HIV
 * 2) How do you say Empanada or Taqueria in Chinese?

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 28


 * 1) Translating from American Sign Language

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 29


 * 1) New Zealand suburbs

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 30


 * 1) "user has near native speaker knowledge of English"