Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2023

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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 1

1. Mid-Atlantic accents

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 2

1. How common is inverting word order for questions cross-linguistically?

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 3

1. What's the difference between an apical palato-alveolar (domed) consonant and a laminal retroflex consonant.

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 4

1. What’s going on here?

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 5

1. Blue
2. Matrilineal grandparents
3. Syriac name

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 6

1. English "eu"
2. Japanese acronyms

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 7

1. Questions

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 11

1. Desiccate

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 13

1. Pronouncing "boatswain" as one would expect per its spelling

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 15

1. the shortest English word, hardest to pronounce, for foreigners.
2. significance of the middle name (or full name?) in child discipline

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 16

1. To reverse or to not reverse
2. A small quantity of questions

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 17

1. Ideographic theory
2. Long U palatal question

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 18

1. Italic title?
2. Catalogue raisonné

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 19

1. What language does the following word sound like, to your ears?

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 23

1. Phạm Thị Thanh Vân
2. Hungarian translation request

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 24

1. Surbate(d)
2. super duper origin
3. Questions

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 25

1. Need accurate translation of a book title
2. Blossom vs. flower

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 29

1. Looking for a word

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 October 30

1. Couth mouth
2. Turkic terms for Muslim toilet jug
3. First use of "Armenian highlands"