Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2020

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= October 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 1

1. Smith did rob the bank

= October 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 3

1. Tigran as Armenian given name

= October 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 6

1. Some words from Mexican Spanish

= October 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 8

1. Oo ah

= October 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 10

1. Japanese female names

= October 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 13

1. Metaphors that become so ingrained that no-one thinks of them as metaphors
2. For Spanish linguists

= October 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 14

1. Latin translation
2. I love me some mashed potatoes!
3. An England

= October 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 17

1. Illegitimate children being referred to as natural children
2. Italian artist
3. Word equivalent using "-phile" suffix

= October 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 18

1. pronouncing Chrysophylax Dives

= October 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 19

1. Subsequent married name
2. PDM
3. Rock vs. stone

= October 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 20

1. Have Native American languages retained the original words for extinct animals like mammoths?

= October 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 21

1. "A" as a letter and article

= October 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 22

1. Admiral
2. What is this? (help from Chinese speakers)
3. Citation style
4. Why did the first name "Love" for girls fall out of use in English-speaking countries over the last two or three centuries?

= October 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 23

1. Des nuits d'amour à plus finir
2. Thompson language
3. Need help translating a footnote from French to English

= October 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 25

1. Czech question

= October 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 26

1. San Franciscan, HIV
2. How do you say Empanada or Taqueria in Chinese?

= October 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 28

1. Translating from American Sign Language

= October 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 29

1. New Zealand suburbs

= October 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 October 30

1. "user has near native speaker knowledge of English"