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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 1

  1. UIR WORDS
  2. In the field of bank or banking sector
  3. Conjunction question
  4. Bantu noun classes & multiple nouns
  5. Gioja
  6. the extent to which languages sound alike
  7. Brandywell Stadium
  8. French 's'
  9. Correct form

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 2

  1. German to English translation request
  2. 'On accident' or 'by accident'?
  3. Kanji variants
  4. Butt

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 3

  1. Lieutenant Governor
  2. Adverbesque words
  3. French sound
  4. Vocab questions.
  5. meaning of abbreviation ROC

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 4

  1. "Deep and profound"
  2. Spanish dictionary

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 5

  1. Verbs in French
  2. Why doesn't Google's translator have an option to translate Austrian into English?
  3. Ureter

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 6

  1. –st
  2. Crimson and Clover
  3. Greek or Latin for database
  4. anchor off, anchored off
  5. Regarding South Indian Dravidian Langauges.

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 7

  1. Term for coincidental repeated appearance of a word
  2. Eventuated?
  3. Vitamin D

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 8

  1. Confused by grammatical terms
  2. Arabic help
  3. new shool slang-what does this mean...?

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 9

  1. Tip of the tongue
  2. Capitalisation
  3. movie playlist - what is the word
  4. bussiness communication

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 10

  1. radar
  2. Bilingualism in the world
  3. Pronunciation for Norman surname
  4. English to Spanish translation request
  5. COINTELPRO
  6. Develop a virus

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 11

  1. Kurdish as Iranic language
  2. Proper translation of Chinese novel title
  3. Eponymous
  4. "LRT horse van"?
  5. soroptimist
  6. 美国 - Chinese name for the United States
  7. Scottish English

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 12

  1. Chimata de uwasa no
  2. I have or I have got?
  3. Business
  4. Pronunciation of 'Bispham'

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 13

  1. French expression
  2. prevalence of the conjugations in latin

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 14

  1. Unexpected use of "incunabula"
  2. Non-drip gloss paint
  3. Using Wikis to improve student writing - action-research articles?
  4. need major help diagramming this sentence.
  5. Violent macho expressions

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 15

  1. "Forget me not" vs "Don't forget me"
  2. Haitian Creole grammar
  3. Portuguese Translation
  4. Looking for a word
  5. Too/overly minimal pairs

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 16

  1. Spanish "ir", "estar" and "ser"
  2. Rhetoric
  3. translation request
  4. Looking for a French news with French subtitles
  5. Heavily Germanized Latin challenge
  6. Stalin's name in Spanish

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 17

  1. Japanese polite negatives
  2. Question for polyglots, what does it mean to be able to understand a language but not "know it"?
  3. International Phonetic Alphabet
  4. Saint Anne, Alderney
  5. French

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 18

  1. Origins of the word prat
  2. English grammar: Tense in reported speech
  3. Names in Jokes

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 19

  1. Blazing Saddles en español
  2. What does 'พ่อมึงตาย' mean?
  3. Scripture notation
  4. Pronunciation of "aunt"
  5. "Data store" or "datastore"?

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 20

  1. Within an inch of its life
  2. the N word
  3. Language in 14th century England
  4. Japanese characters help
  5. Bulgarian help
  6. Pronunciation of Latin "Niger" and "niger"
  7. Margin of excellence
  8. Spanish flap

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 21

  1. Translation arabic - english
  2. Wehe
  3. Works Cited
  4. Grammatical number of plural-sounding place names in Spanish

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 22

  1. Asian language film
  2. Most popular U.S. president worldwide
  3. Destiny Turns on the Radio
  4. "Hauptkustus"/"Hauptkuatos"
  5. Quick question: Japanese
  6. Old Boy (manga) - Japanese help
  7. What does "Fragko" mean? (Greek, I'm assuming)

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 23

  1. Fast food restaurants in Montreal
  2. Weapons of Maths Instruction
  3. The repetative repeated repeats repeat repeatedly.
  4. Bowling pigeons?
  5. Would anybody care to proof-read my documented essay on the Chilean mining incident?
  6. Angel Land

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 24

  1. Before the junk jokes
  2. Would it be wrong to leave out the "is"?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 25

  1. sociopath- pronunciation
  2. Basis for La Spezia-Rimini line
  3. Some assistance with Argentinian statistics from a Spanish speaker?
  4. Accent used by Carrie Kenny on Kim Possible
  5. "thelonious" meaning and origin
  6. Spinoff question - what dialect of English is this?
  7. Quantity/unit dash when in adjective position

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 26

  1. off of
  2. scansion in virgil
  3. Meaning of "control" as a French word
  4. This - That - These - Those
  5. The girl's name Perri
  6. terminological inexactitude

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 27

  1. Repetition of 'is' in specific phrases
  2. Wealth Obliges
  3. Cantonese phrase
  4. Latin help please
  5. Is performancewise a word?
  6. Scandinavian names

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 28

  1. Malayalam and Tamil

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 29

  1. Part of speech for please
  2. Correct use of hyphens
  3. Polish translation
  4. After colons and semicolons
  5. Katana = Equinox?
  6. T-glottalization in American "kitten" etc.
  7. As easy as pie origin

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 30

  1. Rioplatense "vos" conjugation
  2. Image vs picture
  3. Past of the past
  4. "Named for"
  5. the mystery schwa
  6. Vowels and English verb forms
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