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September 1
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Buffalo Stance
Swiss German Expression?
consultation on stress on word Chinese
September 2
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word-to-morpheme ratio
Help contacting a person whose web site is in Chinese
"bildungsromane"
Gemini by Michel Tournier
ISO 639
French Numbers
September 3
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T-V distinction in Kannada
September 4
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Word
What words do you not capitalize in a header?
Use of "None"
Speaking English
summary, precis..?
Aclaratory note
terminology
french
Translation (fr --> en) check
September 5
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Cast a Dispersion?
Translation
September 6
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Need Help With Translation
When should the hyphen be used, and when should it not be used?
Help with foreign language links
Spanish phrase
words in other languages
Growth of English acceptability of (Middle) English
invitation question...
Spanish "ya"
September 7
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A fast system to deplagirize text?
Do native speakers of English understand following type of sentences easily?
The Communist Party of China and the human soul
Prepositions Preceding Surnames: A Collective Term and Their Alphabetisation
It was a dark and stormy night
Proper adjectives
What does the English idiom game, set, and match mean?
Double Dactyls
Mean of "Macavity"
I need to know what "apostel" is regarding certification of a birth certificate.
Schedule conflicts!
September 8
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A Song that no one knows...
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German Help
After research no clear answer: "What's the difference between Professor, Teacher, instructor?"
Further/farther
Spanish abuuu ;_;
September 9
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German manners
English translation from Japanese
oi kei
Neologism?
How to read Chloe?
Portuguese
grammar help
A document in Slovenian or maybe Croatian
Alphabets
Confusion about in- and un-
Translation of "trem-" in genus name Tremarctos
September 10
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Sense of Vertigo
French corpus: verb frequency
Britney Spears' or Britney Spears's
Anybody know any Korean?
Spanish (?) translation
Please help with semantics
More help with semantics
straight As or straight A's?
European English?
September 11
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Some questions on learning Italian
Grammar
Capito
The English Word "That"
Names of Famous People
September 12
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Middle Chinese
Tibetan spelling of "karma"
english language
How to pronounce (for use in spoken wiki project) death cap mushroom article
September 13
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Word meaning "impoverished aristocrat"
gender names
Lost letters
What Word Describes This Idea?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Time Line
September 14
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PTSA
segue not in oed
Questions in simple past tense
Y
September 15
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a linguistic question
Harry Potter
Content/Contented
RSVP as a verb
No bones
Translation
Glottal stop
definition and use of historical versus historic
How do you pronounce "zusammen" and "entgegen"?
September 16
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New page in Arabic
Best Word Selection
Italics
Mi'kmaq and Acadian French toponymy
Grammar 2
If you wish / If you wish so
Long German word for "jeep"
Reduplicative slang
September 17
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Korean translation
What is the Correct Pronoun to Use Here?
Need Chinese reference or advice
Word which rhymes with "fight" and "write"
Scaglia orazio aci S. Antonio
September 18
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stabilization of automatic translation
U.S. counties - what is the difference between established and organized
Verreisen vs. reisen
Grammar
Just now
Quotation marks
German exams
September 19
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When referring to groups...
Best Word Choice?
Idiom: Blood on Blood
The e-word
Latin translation of "Intrum Justitia"
whistle down the wind: etymology
September 20
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Punctuation
What is the IPA for Joe Sakic ?
how's your father
Choose Between Two Words
Use of into/in to
i need your answers...
Japanese Wikipedia
September 21
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Elementary language Homework
IPA TTS
Audio pronunciation
to sport
Let yourself be tempted by ...
Grammar and nationalities
Why Italian pronounces "pizza" as "pete-zha" not "pee-sha"?
French translation
September 22
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Johnny condom
Cottage cheese
The origin of the word embryo
September 23
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Latin Word for Quote
Samples of Middle Norwegian
Svangaskarð pronunciation
I am "humbled"
A question from es.wikipedia regarding the femeninity of boats
September 24
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origin of English idiomatic phrase
Spick-and-span (& spick and span; & spick)
"Ziehen"
I have an idea you're pulling our leg. - Xn4
Effect of words in brackets on sentence
Vampire
Khmer language
Diacritics in Slovenian names
Loss of Gender in English Between Old and Modern English
Help with name pronunciation, Peter Geach
September 25
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Help with Latin quotation
Idioms & Proverbs
Definition of the word "native"
Percentage of English words derived from Latin or Romance languages
September 26
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Wizard of Oz lyrics
translation into Latin
"How do you like my paragraph?"
Sew what's new?
September 27
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Are there translation sites where Japanese words are in English letter words instead of symbols?
sentence making
What is the Proper Term for This?
language arts
Dutch to English translation for improvement of Wikipedia article
what is the phrase "hairs on a bobbin"
Miquelon; Basque, Spanish, both or neither?
What does this mean?
The Scots leid
September 28
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Shortest sentence
how do you pronouce charis?
accent advice please
Englishman's home
IPA for Australian name Brabham
Classical Greek font
Russian
September 29
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latin poem
Learning to read
Kiss Me
Japanese
Symbol for the word Lively in Aramic,Arabic, or Korean
September 30
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(In)transitive verbs
aspects of Mary
Grammar
Meaning of a phrase
Latinized Dutch names
Grammar