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August 1

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  1. Apartments

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 2

  1. I'm looking for an adjective:
  2. Tamara de Lempicka: her surname as pronounced in France and America

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 3

  1. I need another word for "nontrivial", in the expression "nontrivial assumption".
  2. Scatty (Irish?)
  3. Do animated emojis improve consistency of interpretations?

August 4

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  1. ¿Investigador o auxiliar de investigación?
  2. Typing one space or two?

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 5

  1. Hard or hardly??

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 7

  1. Why did people historically use so many fancy vocabulary terms and long sentences?

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 8

  1. How much of Esperanto was created by Zamenhof

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 9

  1. Is it 42nd or 42d??
  2. North Korea BEST NOT make any more threats

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 10

  1. Comma after "in other instances"

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 11

  1. Is a heifer a nulliparous cow or virgin cow?

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 12

  1. "Inuit" in Inuktitut

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 13

  1. Looking for a word in Arabic
  2. 40 in Russian

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 14

  1. Order: However

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 16

  1. Help break up a very long sentence

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 17

  1. Yankee go home? Or Yankees go home?

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 18

  1. Which one has a negative connotation - heathen or pagan?
  2. Translation from German wanted

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 19

  1. vox populi vs. voci populi
  2. at vs for
  3. Sábado and Saturday
  4. "Insanitary" vs "unsanitary"

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 20

  1. ESL accreditation group for China?
  2. German town - Ölper or Oelper?

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 21

  1. Why do Australians say "Coo-ee?"

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 22

  1. Origin of "the cucumbers of peace"
  2. French lyrics (paroles de chanson) of three French songs
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 22#What_does_.7B.7Blang.7C2.3Dד.27.7D.7D_stand_for.3F|What does [ד'] Error: {{Lang}}: missing language tag (help) stand for?]]

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 23

  1. ¢ vs ⌀
  2. How to create a new article in another language

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 24

  1. Languages easiest to learn for English-Chinese bilingual native speakers?
  2. Latin. Does anybody here understand Latin well?
  3. Is it rude to say "bon appetit" to an actual French person?

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 25

  1. DOP

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 28

  1. About Draft:Where are my friends (nursery rhyme)
  2. Do right-to-left languages make writing easier for left-handers?
  3. Why do we have the letter X despite it not having a special sound??
  4. Chinese characters
  5. What kind of (British?) accent is [http://www.kan.org.il/Program/?catId=1111 this]?

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 29

  1. Does philo- words automatically mean a person is not part of the thing but "loves" it as an outsider?
  2. Have, Haber, Happening

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 August 30

  1. Þa wealas ne cwǽdon on Lǽdene sprǽce [Why do the Welsh traditionally speak a Celtic language?]
  2. Bergensk?
  3. Sasuke Uchiha
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