Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2022

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August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 2

1. Is "abortionist" offensive
2. Postalveolar articulation

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 4

1. French greeting or call for attention, sounds like /saje/
2. Un lama peut en cacher un autre !

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 7

1. Compound subjects
2. Map in Ancient Greek

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 8

1. Checking something in a corpus using WordSmith?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 9

1. Split Sabbath, Shabbat and Sabbat

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 11

1. Possessive of film character name with postfixed appositive actor name
2. Phonotactics database
3. What is the origin of the term "video" as used to describe visual media?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 12

1. Does anyone recognize this language?
2. What's the word in Turkish?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 13

1. Identifying a word I heard. I'm not sure about its spelling and meaning

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 14

1. A couple of phonotactics questions

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 16

1. The Sound of Silence

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 17

1. English adjectives
2. Noting a misspelled middle initial

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 18

1. ambiguous Japanese sentence

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 19

1. Things colloquially called "machine" in English

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 21

1. Ancient Greek and Germans

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 22

1. Words for "picky" in German

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 23

1. What language has the 'best" monophthong chart coverage?
2. Mississippian period

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 25

1. Praematura morte jam erepto
2. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 26

1. major (officer) in French
2. Question marks as emojis

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 27

1. Saxophone = "knife murder"

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 28

1. Possessive form of names ending in z
2. gavia articulata oculos

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 30

1. Is the language of this text Punjabi?

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 August 31

1. What would a division of geologic time named for New York be called?
2. That's as an inanimate relative pronoun