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February 1
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French and German
Me and Thrak
Joint = travel?
Testing accuracy of language reconstruction techniques
Number of morphemes in English
"syllogistic bombs"
Johnny Rotten
Phone numbers
What do actual Japanese people think of weeaboos?
February 2
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Are palatal stops palatalized alveolar stops or palatalized velar stops?
Arabic, Albanian, Russian, and Khmer questions
"Validus" in Arabic
February 3
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This German Life ?
February 4
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Alternate scripts for Latin
School district Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese, and Korean help
Past tense double-letter usage
Liberated wife
How and why did the Dutch R change?
February 5
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The word "but"
Berry, bury, barry
Present (Physically there)
Is procreation a true synonym of conception?
He/she/it/they when referring to an unborn child?
Catalan to English translation
What's the word for...
February 6
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Requested translation - Chinese to English
Meaning of word Kashir or Kashar
Abbreviations for Volts: alternating current and root mean squared
February 7
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Alumni - only graduates?
February 8
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japan's culture
What is meant by the caption in :File:Tokugawa Ieyasu handprint.jpg?
, before and in Am Eng
German: rüstung vs panzer
February 9
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Plural of "series"
Maldonado
Hebrew-English relationship
Indian English
Old Albanian
Advance(d) orders
Arabic triliteral roots
Future Past
February 10
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Alveolar lateral trill
Minerai
Bad French intolerance stereotype
February 11
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Tense vs. Time in Grammar
Why is president referred as "she"?
Using "God" in a nonreligious context?
February 12
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Kanji elements
Japanese names.
Marc Ouellet
"aa" in German
Du kannst mich mal
Concepts or meaning outside of the scope of the English language
February 13
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"These ones" ?
Quirky placement of modal verbs (American English)
February 14
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A frightfully fascinating question
February 15
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Secular variant of Legalism (theology)
Attorney, lawyer, lawmaker?
February 16
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A Latin challenge
February 17
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"Go to hell!.."
"Ask the devil's mother!.."
February 18
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Ruslan and Lyudmila
ἔδει μὲν γὰρ τὴν δι᾽ ἐναντίας
Arabic help
February 19
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Complete Set Character
Iesus
"...than what ..." in comparative expressions
Happy-go-lucky hater
mofusil
February 20
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Spanish help
Euphemisms for "fried"
Daryl Katz
Pronunciation of oxymoron
February 21
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Part of speech for interjections
L'Oréal
What is the opposite of 'empirical'?
German and French requests
February 22
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"conservative"
His number of days has come
February 24
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Symbols in Latin text
Request for Hausa Language in the world languages you mentioned in your web site.
Trace, track, trail
Definition of Syllable
February 25
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Spanish question
Where is this sentence from
What's the "Hand" means in "Hand of the Heavenly Brider".
Pronunciation of colonel and lieutenant
Ger>Eng. Unter Menschen
How do translators know when to translate literally or figuratively?
February 26
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Yasui Santetsu
Really hard to figure out phrase
love handles
Authority control
February 27
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be between husbands
expectocrasy
If not for him
introductory paragraph
February 28
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Xavier in Arabic
Is the Wikipedia on?
Spanish punctuation