Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2023

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 1


 * 1) Mid-Atlantic accents

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 2


 * 1) How common is inverting word order for questions cross-linguistically?

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 3


 * 1) What's the difference between an apical palato-alveolar (domed) consonant and a laminal retroflex consonant.

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 4


 * 1) What’s going on here?

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 5


 * 1) Blue
 * 2) Matrilineal grandparents
 * 3) Syriac name

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 6


 * 1) English "eu"
 * 2) Japanese acronyms

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 7


 * 1) Questions

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 11


 * 1) Desiccate

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 13


 * 1) Pronouncing "boatswain" as one would expect per its spelling

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 15


 * 1) the shortest English word, hardest to pronounce, for foreigners.
 * 2) significance of the middle name (or full name?) in child discipline

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 16


 * 1) To reverse or to not reverse
 * 2) A small quantity of questions

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 17


 * 1) Ideographic theory
 * 2) Long U palatal question

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 18


 * 1) Italic title?
 * 2) Catalogue raisonné

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 19


 * 1) What language does the following word sound like, to your ears?

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 23


 * 1) Phạm Thị Thanh Vân
 * 2) Hungarian translation request

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 24


 * 1) Surbate(d)
 * 2) super duper origin
 * 3) Questions

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 25


 * 1) Need accurate translation of a book title
 * 2) Blossom vs. flower

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 29


 * 1) Looking for a word

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 30


 * 1) Couth mouth
 * 2) Turkic terms for Muslim toilet jug
 * 3) First use of "Armenian highlands"