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May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 5

  1. Uzbek translation for Jeopardy! (franchise)
  2. Nit-pick question about formatting and punctuation
  3. Parent's co-parent, co-parent's offspring

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 6

  1. Describing these people

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 7

  1. Hers is severely underutilized
  2. Japanese translation request
  3. Egyptian "alphabetical" order

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 8

  1. The letter J and sound /j/
  2. What is the name of the following Arabic phenomenon?

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 10

  1. Formal identity between intensifier and reflexive pronoun

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 11

  1. Ovechkin and Varlamov in a commercial
  2. Early usage or origin of phrase "reputation laundering"

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 12

  1. Speaking the ancient Moldavian

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 13

  1. Lemnos Stele
  2. Pronunciation respelling

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 15

  1. Closen

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 16

  1. "I work/study at (the) London Business School."
  2. Hunterian transliteration scheme
  3. But- prefix getting the number 4
  4. Spanish, Romance/Latin and Indo-European languages conecepts of mortality
  5. Welsh ff and ph

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 17

  1. What does "arbiya jarabiya" mean in Arabic?
  2. Apposition with extra commas

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 18

  1. Reparability

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 19

  1. Thomas à Kempis
  2. Weird symbol on Ancient Egypt-related articles
  3. Is waxen a real word?

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 20

  1. Does portuguese article relates gender of the thing or gender of the name of the thing?

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 21

  1. How many letters in a row can a German word have?

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 23

  1. Nineteen hundred

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 24

  1. Preposition + verb compounds in Germanic languages?
  2. Getaway chin

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 25

  1. "before dying"

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 26

  1. Similarly spelled words

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 27

  1. Catch-all term for embassy/consulate/trade office in English

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 28

  1. "Family" as a slang term

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 29

  1. Conchousness
  2. "robot position" vs "robot's position"

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 30

  1. Dotted and dotless I

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 31

  1. Little does foo know...
  2. Order of vowels in Thai Script
  3. Forming nouns from adjectives ending in the /i/ sound, using the -ness suffix.