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29	Is the schwa sound consistent?
29	Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
26	Is there some relationship between the modern u and μ?
25	In romance languages, are there examples of male names that derive from female names?
25	Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did

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+30	How is it that such varied sounds (in major European Languages) came to be represented by the same letter “j”?
+10	Origin of the English word 'tooth' being pronounced /tʊθ/?
+10	Do dialects without the meet-meat merger neutralize the distinction in some contexts?
+10	Why does Greek have 'aorgesia' and 'aorist' rather than 'anorgesia' and 'anorist'?

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13	Do dialects without the meet-meat merger neutralize the distinction in some contexts?
8	Why does French “cheveu(x)” have “eu” and not “eau”?
8	Why does word-initial upsilon always have a rough breathing?
7	Why isn't intervocalic /ŋ/ analyzed as an onset in English?
7	Why does “begin” have /g/ instead of /j/ if it's from PG *ginnan?

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40	Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

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