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1. Is "abortionist" offensive
2. Postalveolar articulation

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1. French greeting or call for attention, sounds like /saje/
2. Un lama peut en cacher un autre !

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1. Compound subjects
2. Map in Ancient Greek

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1. Checking something in a corpus using WordSmith?

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1. Split Sabbath, Shabbat and Sabbat

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1. Possessive of film character name with postfixed appositive actor name
2. Phonotactics database
3. What is the origin of the term "video" as used to describe visual media?

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1. Does anyone recognize this language?
2. What's the word in Turkish?

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1. Identifying a word I heard. I'm not sure about its spelling and meaning

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1. A couple of phonotactics questions

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1. The Sound of Silence

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1. English adjectives
2. Noting a misspelled middle initial

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1. ambiguous Japanese sentence

August 19 Information

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1. Things colloquially called "machine" in English

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1. Ancient Greek and Germans

August 22 Information

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1. Words for "picky" in German

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1. What language has the 'best" monophthong chart coverage?
2. Mississippian period

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1. Praematura morte jam erepto
2. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

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1. major (officer) in French
2. Question marks as emojis

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1. Saxophone = "knife murder"

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1. Possessive form of names ending in z
2. gavia articulata oculos

August 30 Information

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1. Is the language of this text Punjabi?

August 31 Information

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1. What would a division of geologic time named for New York be called?
2. That's as an inanimate relative pronoun