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- What are these Chinese characters?
- Drug delivery
- When the man said alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, I naturally assumed he was making a delivery." Can anyone trace the original source
- What is this Arabic text? (small and hard to see)
May 3[edit]
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- Persian (including Old Persian): Does it have any word similar to the English word "good" by both sound and meaning?
- Latin-to-English translation
May 4[edit]
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- Does this sentence convey my message?
- Arabic question: German School of Beirut
- De nada
- History of the abbreviations 'ag' or 'a/g' (for "acting")
May 5[edit]
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- A short term for scaling up/ mass production difficulty
- Metric body height
- (Slavo-) Macedonian folk song
- Categorizing help
May 6[edit]
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- IPA pronunciation of Thuc Doan Nguyen
- Saying sorry after bumping into someone?
- What Arabic text corresponds to the name of the AEFE
May 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 8
- What is a Better English Translation for "d'Astronome titulaire"?
- Is this readable enough for university students?
- Need help getting content from site in Arabic
- death to whom?
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May 11[edit]
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- "What all" in American dialect(s)
- Rather or fairly difficult?
- What is the answer (or opposite side) for "Less is more"
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May 17[edit]
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- Greeting to mourners sitting shiva: "שאר" or "שער"?
- "giving" and "receiving"
- Lack of relative directions
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May 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 20
- shorthand transcription needed
- "True" meaning of "poisonous"
- Formal languages and natural languages
- Using "accumulate" as a noun
May 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 21
- Gallipot
- What's the provenance of the given name Ahsan?
- Japanese question: info on a book written about the Japanese school of Manaus, Brazil?
- What's the name of the "promo" (like an abstract or a brief preface) usually printed on the back of books?
- Fell as past participle of fall (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)?
- Older sibling vs younger sibling in the case of Japanese twins?
- Explanation
May 22[edit]
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- Term for covering of track on vertical blinds?
- multiple forenames in Spanish
- Why is ITMO's URL ifmo.ru[http://en.ifmo.ru/]?
- Looking for a word...
May 23[edit]
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May 25[edit]
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- When were spaces introduced in Hangul?
- Finnish accent in the German language?
- Wienerisch
- What does 'tschicko? tschicko!' mean in German?
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May 29[edit]
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- Are the verbs "to ascertain" and "to determine" complete synonyms?
- Haček in an American spelling bee?
- Are you supposed to type one space or two spaces, after a period?
- "Cogenidad"?
May 30[edit]
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