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October 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 1

  1. Mid-Atlantic accents

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 2

  1. How common is inverting word order for questions cross-linguistically?

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 3

  1. What's the difference between an apical palato-alveolar (domed) consonant and a laminal retroflex consonant.

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 4

  1. What’s going on here?

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 5

  1. Blue
  2. Matrilineal grandparents
  3. Syriac name

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 6

  1. English "eu"
  2. Japanese acronyms

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 7

  1. Questions

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 11

  1. Desiccate

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 13

  1. Pronouncing "boatswain" as one would expect per its spelling

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 15

  1. the shortest English word, hardest to pronounce, for foreigners.
  2. significance of the middle name (or full name?) in child discipline

October 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 16

  1. To reverse or to not reverse
  2. A small quantity of questions

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 17

  1. Ideographic theory
  2. Long U palatal question

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 18

  1. Italic title?
  2. Catalogue raisonné

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 19

  1. What language does the following word sound like, to your ears?

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 23

  1. Phạm Thị Thanh Vân
  2. Hungarian translation request

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 24

  1. Surbate(d)
  2. super duper origin
  3. Questions

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 25

  1. Need accurate translation of a book title
  2. Blossom vs. flower

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 29

  1. Looking for a word

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 30

  1. Couth mouth
  2. Turkic terms for Muslim toilet jug
  3. First use of "Armenian highlands"