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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 1

1. Tank legend
2. Deventer pronunciation

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 2

1. Why is Tresckow pronounced like -cow and and not -coff
2. Chandrabindu

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 3

1. invisible word breaks in Chinese
2. Russian sentence?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 5

1. Latin

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 6

1. Theatre jargon

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 12

1. Questions again

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 13

1. English variety where "what it's" is grammatical
2. -er

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 14

1. "United States customary units"

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 15

1. Talk the hind legs off a donkey
2. "accidents and conveniences"

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 17

1. Pangram

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 18

1. vowel length contrast

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 19

1. Numbers

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 21

1. The NATO phonetic alphabet is prescriptive, not descriptive
2. occupation-derived names
3. English article

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 23

1. Three questions
2. "Wouldn't you like to know?" origin/occurrence

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 26

1. Before non-Protestant churches switched to vernacular
2. Voltan or Voltaic?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 27

1. Root vs rowt

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 29

1. Jargon
2. Paris, Peru.....Iraq, Iran....

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 May 31

1. Can someone’s native language affect how they hear other languages?