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January 3[edit]
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- Name for insect vegetarian
- Japanese translation request
- In what order are digits written within a right-to-left text?
- How do Japanese people view those who pronounce the particle を as 'wo'?
- In what order are digits spoken within a left-to-right text?
January 4[edit]
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January 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 5
- Looking for the name of a logical fallacy
- Interwiki link
- Former Australian cyclist
- Should one use a singular or plural in this case? Is it proper to use "its" or "their"?
January 6[edit]
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January 7[edit]
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- Derogatory phrase "Mary" maricón
- Great Britain and UK.
- Meaning of a Scientific latin name
- What is a gubbins
January 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 8
- Technical initialism case
- What languages uses the ASCII alphabet only?
- Gender neutral terminology for "Man of the Year"/"Woman of the Year"
January 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 9
- Why do Germans call New Year's Eve "Silvester?"
- Pronunciation question
- Forts in French
- Photographic prompts
- "-ity" vs. "-osity"
January 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 10
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Asking for IPA pronounciation of French biography article
- Title of Kipling story
January 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 11
- What is "and it might still.. " called?
- Homeric greek
- Arabic "taharrush gamea"
- In which languages there R consonant which pronounced like in English?
January 12[edit]
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January 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 13
- Does modern Hebrew have any punctuation?
- Meaning of an obsolete Dutch word 'gom'?
- Why are there no feminine versions for certain names?
- Good sources for audio of words
January 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 14
- Gender neutral French given names?
- Demonstration of Speech Shadowing
- Hitler's Mein Kampf 2016 reprint
January 15[edit]
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January 16[edit]
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January 17[edit]
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- Analysis of "the ruin of many a poor boy"
- German name of Oskar Schindler's Enamelware Factory
- "North, Central America and the Caribbean"
January 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 18
- Hard sentences make bad article
- Names with two patronymic affixes
- Russian: is there any word, other than жизнь, that ends with /zn/?
- Are Libana and Lubna the same person?
January 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 19
- The Female First Name "Knar"
- American English vs. British English, 1812
- Why would native speakers of English take a test of English as foreign language?
- Why do English speakers like to end names with -y?
- Name that form of deceptive advertising
- What does this clause mean?
January 20[edit]
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January 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 21
- Deciphering a language
- Is "defrosted" a synonym of "thawed" in the context of freezing and thawing samples?
- Chinese/Japanese kanji characters on Japanese flag
January 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 22
- Using an ellipsis to mark a parenthentical thought
- House of Representatives election vs. House of representatives elections
- "Slepulja/Sləpulja" meaning, etymology in Slavic
January 23[edit]
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- For native English speakers only: Would a native English speaker talk like this?
- Procedure for writing better
- Neutral pronoun
- You had good/better/best answer this question
January 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 January 24
- Am looking for an English proper noun (a name of person / city - and likewise), whose pronunciation contains the consonant of "the".
- Is the NHS paying for socks?
- Japanese language question
January 25[edit]
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January 26[edit]
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January 27[edit]
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- Which do you think reads best?
- Marsupial cheeks
- "still are" or "are still"?
- I am looking for one good word to describe "how many years ago something happened".
January 28[edit]
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January 29[edit]
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January 30[edit]
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- Need help with an old French book
- A mistake? (in spelling in a fanfic video on the rise of Insoc from Orwell's 1984)