Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2025

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 1

1. Fraction names
2. The two pronunciations of Hebrew letter Het in Ancient Hebrew?
3. Meaning of "fauve" in native French and in Ionesco's "Rhinoceros"?
4. Use of Old Norse in old Rus'?
5. English tenses
6. Centuries

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 3

1. Why is it boxes and not boxen?

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 4

1. Pronunciation of "God b'wi you"?
2. Correlation of early human migrations with languages
3. Attaining cadre

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 5

1. Name of Nova Scotia?

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 6

1. Lowercase L that looks like capital I with an extra serif

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 7

1. Examples of the use of "might" as a past tense?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 8

1. Pronunciation of "breen"

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 9

1. Is there a term which categorises these phrases?

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 11

1. Evening and night

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 12

1. Latin alphabet

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 14

1. Nuevo!

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 18

1. Conlangs allowed here?

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 19

1. Questions

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 20

1. What's the common phrasing in spoken English? Is it "Not Always do I buy", "Not only does he buy but he also sells", "Not necessarily do we know", and likewise?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 21

1. Why can you say that someone is "on meth" but not "on cigarettes"?

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 23

1. These quotes could be added to a "figure of speech" Wikipedia page in the future

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 25

1. Question - What Terms to Use

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 26

1. Churchill opinion on R battleships
2. Tyger Drew-Honey's name in Russian?

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2025 January 29

1. Uppercase after a semicolon?
2. Richard Nixon and his Chinese earstoppers
3. Clock again