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October 6
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- Dutch spellings of place names
- Meaning of the sentence
- The name for this phrasing structure
- "One of the best films of this or any year"
- "dark L"
October 7
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- Glottal stop
- Term for political issue
- Youthful cheering on sports teams
- Stress in Greek names
- Horse and cart/wagon/buggy/carriage/whathaveyou
- Finding place name rhymes
- Speaking of rhyme
- W and V as English-language vowels
- Poetry and/or songs in sign languages
- Why is Rocio a girl (in Spanish)
October 8
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- Assistance of/from
- Troodeloo (?) in Rebecca (1940 film)
- Clarification needed about an African Language
- "Making out"
October 9
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October 11
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- Chinese names of fictional characters
- Translation of Spanish with misspellings/nonstandard forms
- Mooki Ana Low-Hey song translation
- Cyrillic Polish
October 12
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- "Bomb girls" or "Shell girls?"
- The Japanese word "youmu"
- English grammar question (deverbal nouns)
- Phrase search
October 13
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October 14
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- Strange Japanese Sign: What is the original intent?
- Pronunciation of Darius
- What is easy for Mandarin Speakers to learn?
- 3rd person or 1st person
October 15
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October 19
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- Businessman that only speaks Scots
- How to express "8th day of the week" and "13rd month of the year" in English?
October 20
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October 22
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- Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
- Are the following sentences "good"?
- US Usage of Prepositions (Revisited)
- Origin: Bishop (surname)
- Search Wikipedia in English
October 23
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October 24
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- Ada pronunciation
- Can a country be a cultural center?
- Chinese translation requested
- An English word
- bürgerschaftlicher - meaning?
- Using a word as a word itself
- Government Booklet
October 25
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- Chinese help: Getting names of Chinese authors and novel titles
- Bulembu word origin
- Word matching
- after & behind in rankings
- Ultimate
- Offline equivalent of an online troll?
October 26
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- Silver Linings Playbook
- translation chinese-english
- Simple. English to Russian
- Difference between football tournament & international football
- Drop me a line
- Using Words on TV (Traitor)
- The original Magna Carta
October 27
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October 28
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- Patterns of speech in the 19th century
- -го in Common Slavic
- What is the meaning of BIOTA?
- It was agreed that we should fix English grammar
- Other/Another
October 29
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- name for a second language skill evaulation
- Lax vowels in unchecked syllables
- ʊ→ʌ in dialects
- Pronunciation: bechamel
- Speaking of ch
- Standard and regional dialect words
October 30
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- Grammatical?
- Pronunciation of Gia
- Chinese help: Niehai Hua characters
- Eejit
- Spanish ch
- How to write out "two hundred and twenty-five millionth" in Greek?