Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2022

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May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 5

1. Uzbek translation for Jeopardy! (franchise)
2. Nit-pick question about formatting and punctuation
3. Parent's co-parent, co-parent's offspring

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 6

1. Describing these people

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 7

1. Hers is severely underutilized
2. Japanese translation request
3. Egyptian "alphabetical" order

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 8

1. The letter J and sound /j/
2. What is the name of the following Arabic phenomenon?

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 10

1. Formal identity between intensifier and reflexive pronoun

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 11

1. Ovechkin and Varlamov in a commercial
2. Early usage or origin of phrase "reputation laundering"

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 12

1. Speaking the ancient Moldavian

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 13

1. Lemnos Stele
2. Pronunciation respelling

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 15

1. Closen

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 16

1. "I work/study at (the) London Business School."
2. Hunterian transliteration scheme
3. But- prefix getting the number 4
4. Spanish, Romance/Latin and Indo-European languages conecepts of mortality
5. Welsh ff and ph

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 17

1. What does "arbiya jarabiya" mean in Arabic?
2. Apposition with extra commas

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 18

1. Reparability

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 19

1. Thomas à Kempis
2. Weird symbol on Ancient Egypt-related articles
3. Is waxen a real word?

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 20

1. Does portuguese article relates gender of the thing or gender of the name of the thing?

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 21

1. How many letters in a row can a German word have?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 23

1. Nineteen hundred

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 24

1. Preposition + verb compounds in Germanic languages?
2. Getaway chin

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 25

1. "before dying"

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 26

1. Similarly spelled words

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 27

1. Catch-all term for embassy/consulate/trade office in English

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 28

1. "Family" as a slang term

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 29

1. Conchousness
2. "robot position" vs "robot's position"

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 30

1. Dotted and dotless I

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022 May 31

1. Little does foo know...
2. Order of vowels in Thai Script
3. Forming nouns from adjectives ending in the /i/ sound, using the -ness suffix.