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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 1

1. What do you call a kind of saying such as the one below?

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 2

1. Russian translation
2. Methuselah's name

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 3

1. Dual, trial, and quadral words

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 5

1. Der Stand und das Ständchen

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 6

1. March
2. This Chinese script
3. Searching literature about how to learn better a foreign language
4. Be you [placeholder]
5. Official languages of Israel

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 7

1. Third

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 8

1. Victorian literature

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 9

1. Is "Alternate" a Proper Alternative to "Alternative"?
2. Foo-shaped hole in my heart
3. exercise about, exercise on?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 11

1. Urdu, Arabic and Farsi
2. English Language: WHOM and WERE

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 13

1. Why wasn't "photographic memory" called "color cinematographic memory" when color cinema appeared in 1934?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 16

1. Biomes and language phyla

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 17

1. Antonym of conjunction "unless"

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 18

1. Reprieve
2. Coloring vowels

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 19

1. what is the current authority for creation of new words in english language
2. Sorabe script
3. Sumerian language, where and when was last use, and in what form, written or conceivably spoken?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 20

1. a question-phrase

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 21

1. Trying to decipher a couple of words from a BBC podcast.

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 22

1. Can someone find this original Galileo quotation?
2. Terms for eighths
3. Mutual intelligibility between Igbo dialects

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 24

1. Fall 2015
2. Usage of "public viewing" in English
3. The analogy of testicles to balls, or to other objects, in various languages.

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 25

1. chirurgery vs chirugery

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 27

1. thank you in German
2. Origin of the name "Unthank"
3. C10 languages

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 28

1. -ing
2. There Is No Portal For Translation Studies - On Friday, 28 October, 2016 -
3. Na'vi translation
4. English level in Spain

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 October 30

1. Pronunciation information missing from Wikipedia entries...