Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2024

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September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 3

1. What is the Origin of the Surname Kılıçdaroğlu?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 5

1. Illari Quispe Ruiz

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 6

1. -ou
2. Can I change Wikipedia so that articles appear in American English? If so, how?

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 7

1. Egyptian personal names and gendered parentals

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 8

1. French 'de le' --> 'du', and 'de les' --> 'des': an exception?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 11

1. Checkerboard or chessboard??
2. another odd wördle.de answer (Sept 10 answer)

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 14

1. "Mental health" as a negative
2. Née question
3. A couple of questions (primarily about phonology)

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 16

1. Why is "some" not an article?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 17

1. Spanish diphthongs
2. Identification of Subject based on Chinese text

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 19

1. English word to refer to an entity under another one

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 20

1. Thüringern

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 21

1. Translation request: Works and artists from Commons File

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 22

1. Attention theft, Mise-en-scène, and Narrowcasting
2. Convergent use

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 23

1. Charcuterie

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 24

1. Capricious

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 25

1. Is this an error of style?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 29

1. Short audio translation request

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 September 30

1. Memento Aomori
2. "Turn it up now"