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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 1

  1. Decimal terminology in Spanish
  2. Grammar

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 2

  1. How to write Arabic roots
  2. Word placement

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 3

  1. Italic in Italian
  2. Trying to remember title of book, about writing non-fictional stories

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 4

  1. Fictional Character
  2. Translation into Hebrew
  3. Walk the stars

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 5

  1. Unverified Dutch-language claim in the article Spuyten Duyvil Creek

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 7

  1. Indigenous Australian
  2. Youth World Championships

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 8

  1. yes or no
  2. A spectrogram riddle
  3. Trouble at t'Mill
  4. Meaning of a word used in King Lear
  5. Tfal in Arabic writing

November 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 9

  1. "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (rounded vowels in French songs)
  2. change of meaning by misunderstanding context

November 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 10

  1. Commonwealth

November 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 11

  1. Love the One You're With
  2. First usage of 'white' and 'black' for skin colour?
  3. Alleged assimilation of [n] to [m] in Italian before certain consonants

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 13

  1. A question about the Spanish language and United States law
  2. Hapax legomena among proper nouns
  3. Shit happenstance

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 14

  1. Self-referential question
  2. Pronunciation/writing of Sino-Korean numerals
  3. spellings in French
  4. "It's Kobe taking over for LeBron"

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 15

  1. Could Holden Caulfield be at a place which is not a hospital?
  2. Language codes

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 16

  1. Meaning of Geheimrat
  2. Modern Greek pronunciation of Koine texts

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 17

  1. How do French speakers abbreviate GIGN in conversation?
  2. A person who only gives attention to people who say negative things about them
  3. In vs. out
  4. Languages, genetically far enough from each other, but phonetically sounding quite similar, to a foreigner's ear.

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 18

  1. Is there any language, other than Old Egyptian, which has a joint word - both for "fishing rod " - and for "waiting "?
  2. "-ec" peoples in Spanish
  3. Ae and Oe

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 19

  1. Beckenbauer
  2. Part of speech statistics
  3. Cant be arsed
  4. I need the translation of the following English sentence into some languages:
  5. Apostrophes in headlines, and quotes.
  6. How many books in high-school?
  7. Pour vous, rien.

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 20

  1. What time and when

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 21

  1. Svetlana Penkina - help please :-)
  2. Al-Kawakibi
  3. emoji

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 22

  1. The Next Big Thing
  2. Thorn with a little e on top
  3. "firm going" and "rough going"

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 23

  1. Trading in English varieties
  2. Meaning of the word 'wail'

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 24

  1. learn
  2. "juniper Germans", "willow Russians" and "brushwood Englishmen"
  3. 24 - hour clock
  4. 450th anniversary

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 25

  1. From the Russian: twice-bannered, twice-starred

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 27

  1. Tunisian alphabet?

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 28

  1. Fruit saying

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 29

  1. Plural behind measurements

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 30

  1. Languages on Serbian poster
  2. "For a long time and good reasons, I have..."
  3. Lithuanian vocative
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