Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2023

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March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 2

1. Arabic surnames including al and bin

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 3

1. Comical comparatives

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 5

1. Most common terms for marijuana

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 7

1. Captioning order when multiple visual elements are not aligned

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 10

1. Rounding numbers up instead of down

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 13

1. Calques (istorija) versus coining (povijest) -- if I understand properly the definition of the terms -- for purpose of linguistic distinction and resistance to foreign influence. Any history of English (post-1066) refusing to take loan words ?

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 14

1. "Ghout" agricultural practice, written in Arabic
2. days of the week in Catalan and Occitan

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 15

1. Catalan: History of pronunciation

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 16

1. Trivial exercise: educational aid, "root words"

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 17

1. Hebrew-Aramaic contact
2. Japanese Katkana for U (ウ) used in place of chōonpu (ー)

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 18

1. Transliteration

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 19

1. What does oceanic mean??

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 20

1. US map in Ojibwe

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 21

1. Michaelangelo

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 22

1. Questions
2. Units of currency named after the country or place

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 23

1. Is this Persian etymological theory accurate?
2. Family relationship
3. Upward comparison of 2-syllable adjectives.
4. Finding location of a Lebanese church
5. Did all Americans during the Revolution speak in British accents?

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 24

1. An/a style question

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 25

1. Putin tulee kylään
2. What's a dead metaphor?
3. Place of articulation

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 26

1. Latin conjugation question

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 27

1. Questions again

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 28

1. Could these languages switch to Latin alphabet?
2. Why does Swedish and Norwegian double long vowel letters?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 29

1. Is Balzac now a bad word???

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 30

1. Transliteration of East Slavic and Persian names into Italian
2. Changes to colours in many languages in 1990
3. LATIN and Romance languages

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 March 31

1. To what extent are the titular languages of the Russian republics still official?
2. Japanese term for "spoiled girl"