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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 1

1. The meaning of "outsouthern"
2. Acquiescent v quiescent
3. why does the portugese word viciado means "addicted" ? what is his etymology?

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 2

1. Gender of rivers
2. Freckles in Swahili

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 3

1. German physics text
2. Fatherland/motherland and the grammatical gender of the name of the country
3. Pronoun type
4. Ansakit
5. Hung or hanged?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 4

1. Which languages, formally recognized by countries belonging to the Council of Europe, have the simplest Grammar?
2. I'm looking for languages whose phonological system has (at least) nine monophthongs (as phonemes), as following:

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 6

1. Arabic from 1772

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 7

1. How kids these days write

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 9

1. Racking my mac Brain
2. Doctors Without Borders

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 10

1. Italian hard ‘c’ in English

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 11

1. Gränitz

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 12

1. Word for personification of abstract concept?
2. Pre-Latin Basque writing

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 13

1. Vienna University of Economics and Business
2. "S" vs. "ss"

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 14

1. What exactly does the annotation "plural but singular or plural in construction" mean in a dictionary definition?

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 15

1. Spanish - "se las"
2. Describing the "c" sound in IPA

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 16

1. Ambiguous phrase in a poem, "Coast of High Barbaree"
2. Anatolia

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 17

1. Translating foreign language pages
2. Why does the quiet the whole Euro-Asian continent uses the Guarani (native americans) word JAGUAR for this animal,

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 18

1. List of Germanic roots in English

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 21

1. Definitions of rheme and rhematic
2. Arabic translation

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 22

1. what's the deal with double periods/exclamation points
2. Native speaker (Ukrainian): Please Help!

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 23

1. Feminine pronouns
2. Most precise language?
3. Pidgin Languages

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 24

1. Slovak Language help - AfD could use some input and research ASAP - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucas Perny
2. Native speaker (Ukrainian): Please Help! (Part II)
3. Is the following sentence (the italicized one) correct?
4. Pronunciation of saudade

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 25

1. Do modern Italians sounds like ancient ones?
2. Is the term "one party rule" ambiguous?
3. Hanzi question
4. Testing functional literacy
5. Russian в

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 26

1. Who did invent gloss quotes?

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 27

1. Titular terminological travesty
2. Semi-vowel followed by equivalent vowel
3. How would you say, in one word ...

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 29

1. What languages use (the equivalent of) the long scale names billiard, trilliard, etc.
2. When 'out of' means 'at'
3. Home office

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 31

1. Arabic min-hu - from him, his, of his?
2. Does American English have triphthongs?
3. Punctuation after punctuation?!