Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2021

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 1

1. Whilst or while?

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 2

1. Why do so many mis-pronounce the newest variant?
2. Is the word kidnap a portmanteau kid and napping?
3. Why is OED available only by subscription?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 5

1. Word "choosing" confusing me here.
2. Occurring writing style

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 6

1. Parsing of comparative sentences (English)
2. Children's syntax, for expresing: "whose".
3. Henrik Kyhls "kileindgribningssystem"

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 7

1. Meaning of "subsequent acquisition".

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 8

1. Why "quintuple" is not "quinqueple"
2. Flying House vs Tondera House

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 9

1. I need a native translation of a sentence, into the following ten languages:
2. UK accent

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 10

1. Dialog from The Matrix Reloaded
2. What is the "politically correct" name for a master key.
3. Why the pronoun "Hers" is rarely used?

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 11

1. M. Chayet
2. Just now
3. Is the Goldeneye line "PC or Macka" BS?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 13

1. Well-knit
2. "can include, but is not limited to"
3. In what language does "Torana" mean "to fly"

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 14

1. a confusing phrase.

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 15

1. Additional S
2. WP on contractions

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 17

1. "To take out of the fridge"

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 18

1. What does 11th hour title change mean?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 19

1. Dots in Tamil script on the example of ல
2. Homographs that are not homophones causing confusion

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 20

1. "(a) little good news"
2. Words that go with other words

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 21

1. New narrative meaning

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 22

1. The word primorial
2. She's a Tartar

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 23

1. Grass Font

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 24

1. People's names in italics beneath pictures

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 25

1. A question in Turkish

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 27

1. Gibberish Latin

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 28

1. Dialog doubt in No Time To Die
2. To give (someone) gyp
3. "I'm like", she said

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 29

1. Edward VIII abdication: "I" vs "we"
2. fight with
3. Languages having no hissing consonants (e.g. s or sh): What's their traditional translation of the biblical verse in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+12%3A6&version=KJV Judges 12 6] which distinguishes between s and sh ?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 30

1. What does this mean: No one (00/00/0000)?