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December 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 1

  1. Whilst or while?

December 2

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 5

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

December 6

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 7

  1. Meaning of "subsequent acquisition".

December 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 8

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

December 9

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 14

  1. a confusing phrase.

December 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 15

  1. Additional S
  2. WP on contractions

December 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 17

  1. "To take out of the fridge"

December 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 18

  1. What does 11th hour title change mean?

December 19

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 20

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

December 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 21

  1. New narrative meaning

December 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 22

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

December 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 23

  1. Grass Font

December 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 24

  1. People's names in italics beneath pictures

December 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 25

  1. A question in Turkish

December 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 27

  1. Gibberish Latin

December 28

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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

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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

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 30

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