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January 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 2

  1. "Outside is snowing"
  2. Words containing the same number of letters as their numerical value

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 3

  1. All of them are

January 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 4

  1. "Gonna"
  2. Use of "the" before a race or nationality
  3. Chinese questions
  4. German wagen in English

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 6

  1. Ohium
  2. East Asian names
  3. Predicative adjective?

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 8

  1. Japanese vs. Hungarian personal names

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 9

  1. Can one use "to do" to intensify a modal verb in English?
  2. St. Thomas and Prince

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 10

  1. Chinese/Manchu word ’ha’hachutsze
  2. International Phonetic Alphabet - English Approximations are really American English Approximations
  3. "To have oneself be ..."?

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 11

  1. Is "engagement" just the modern term of the archaic "betrothal"?
  2. Los Tres Calaveras

January 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 14

  1. Apostrophe in "girl's basketball"
  2. Achoo in Japanese

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 15

  1. Japan elaborate manhole covers
  2. Is "latter" an adjective or a noun??

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 18

  1. Paczki in Canadian Oxford Dictionary
  2. Hindi translate pls

January 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 19

  1. What figure of speech is this?

January 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 21

  1. She's True... of what?

January 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 23

  1. Scoff who may
  2. Chinese to POJ

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 24

  1. Universidad EAFIT
  2. Why are there no male coeds?

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 25

  1. Francophone needed

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 26

  1. H. Congreso de la Unión

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 28

  1. "Dog food novelties"

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 29

  1. What are the pronunciations?

January 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 30

  1. 'Wane' = 'grow smaller'

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 January 31

  1. Multicultural kids' accent
  2. Is there a proper definition of what a human is?