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December 2
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- The 5 languages closest to English
- Most 'neutral' accent?
- Actors reproducing English language dialects/accents from across the Atlantic (or Pacific)
- American vs British
December 3
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December 4
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- Pants
- I would rather you answer this question correctly
- UN Resolutions in English
- Shorthand?
- attributable
- Latinise this title please?
- Wash your mouth out!
December 5
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- Encyclopedic Value
- English: adjectives: people:
- Regarding the phrase "in which"
- acronyms
- Organic and non-organic military and police ?
- Is it condescending to use the phrase: "at any rate"?
- Beowulf
- Word conveyor?
December 6
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December 7
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- Chinese characters
- Is there a culture where it is ordinary for people to know 5 languages?
- Austrian postal service slogan
- Query about Flemish
- Cunning linguists required
- origin of the phrase "the whole nine yards" 24.233.154.150 (talk) 23:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
December 8
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December 10
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December 11
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- Heraldry
- Epithets / Epithet-names
- from Latin
- Will you help my son and I/me solve the problem of the useage of the words "I/me"?
- "apotheosis"
December 12
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- A general comment and suggestion
- Letter head
- Japanese help
- Gorge / Ravine / Rift / Canyon etc.
- What gets exhumed?
- Jaettu maa
December 13
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- Poetry Punctuation
- Looking for a word meaning "devoid of authority."
- Vocab Qeustion
- Using multiple titles for names
December 14
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December 15
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- œ
- Terms 'financially established" "financially healthy"
- presence of digraphs cs and gs in Latin
- Reduced use of case endings, Russian
- Addressing a female priest
- Entrepreneurs and polyglots
- Proper use of semi-colon?
December 16
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- Mandarin Immersion Programs
- Pronounciation of Gisele Bündchen
- Translation needed of Inscription to the sacrifice of the Swiss Guard
- Usefulness of the Chinese writing system
December 17
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- Hindi and Tamil
- Translation, Please
- Hebrew use of the words "hummus" and "za'atar"
- Continuation of my prev. question
- Hardest language
- at/in usage in this sentence
- Bestevend?
- How much does morpheme:syllable ratio vary, why, and with what result?
- Book Critique Help
- meaning of a Welsh word
- LAKE
December 18
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- Gender proportions
- Japanese Names
- Examples of Conflict/Irony in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- Person who knows the most languages
- Turkish and Arabic
- What language can communicate the most information, while using the least amount of ink?
- Verb tense
- Name for terms that are clarifying sub-classes of themselves
- Guten Tag (German adjective endings)
December 19
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December 20
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- Verb tense follow-up
- What does Jahasra mean?
- Malt liquor in Dickens
- even used to mean the same
- suo moto
- Analogies
- WORDS WRITTEN IN MOSAIC?
- vide
- Association Football or Association football or association football?
- Stowd / Stoud
- what is the word for this
- Two words for Spanish
December 21
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December 22
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December 23
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December 24
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December 25
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December 26
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December 27
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- What language is this?
- Form of exclamation
- -ity/-ness
- what is the sentence pattern?
- Russian spelling
December 28
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December 29
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December 30
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