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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 1

  1. "Pearl-clutching"

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 2

  1. A super's banner
  2. Translation issues

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 3

  1. Vote or votes?

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 5

  1. Japanese place names outside Japan

July 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 6

  1. Questions
  2. Numerals

July 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 7

  1. Loans from Welsh in Old English
  2. Brittonic words for 18
  3. Sino-Xenic toponyny

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 8

  1. Individual conjecture

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 13

  1. Der Alte (Fuchs?)

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 15

  1. Triple parenthetical phrases
  2. Scientific transliteration

July 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 17

  1. "Two English"
  2. May someone tell me what language this video are in?
  3. Drone as a German word

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 21

  1. Ur-pun
  2. Is backwards English a language?
  3. Kilometre

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 22

  1. Philomena Cunk's English
  2. Leaving out "to be"
  3. OSV and VSO words orders
  4. Why is the verb yap considered a TikTok trend?
  5. Suspend

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 24

  1. Which + <noun>...? vs. What + <noun>... ?
  2. Are there apps or any software, that can identify the native language of a speaker currently speaking in a non-native language (e.g. English)?
  3. using past perfect verbs with dates in the same sentence

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 29

  1. Tais everywhere!
  2. An Egyptian "god of the extended arm"

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 30

  1. What is this hieroglyph?
  2. Is there a generic term for "speaker or signer" yet?
  3. What are these cuneiform signs?

July 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 July 31

  1. Argelasse
  2. IRL
  3. Blue Skies