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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 1

  1. Quick brown fox of IPA? (Phonetic pangram?)
  2. Rare sounds
  3. one more question
  4. What do taxidermists do?
  5. ffebruary
  6. Spanish caja -> cajón, taza -> tazón
  7. Changing gender ?

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 2

  1. Wages of sin is death
  2. Nervous in the service
  3. Examples of the type "I saw the bomb burst".
  4. Translation request Lithuanian (?) to English
  5. Hindi: meaning of word on sign, appears to be सीनेकी

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 3

  1. Different past tenses of "hang"
  2. Comma usage
  3. "Grandma's back forty"
  4. Help remembering a word

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 4

  1. estoy un perrito regazo or soy un perrito regazo
  2. Prohibitive mood in passive voice
  3. Adj-N mismatch

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 5

  1. What's the word I'm looking for

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 6

  1. Rhyming "root" with "foot"
  2. Rational national

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 7

  1. Why does Old English capitalize random words?
  2. Chinese dialects
  3. Canadian accent
  4. "Turn of the last century"
  5. essay
  6. Chinese or Japanese translation please
  7. Finnish translation: Artist's archived website contains address: his, or his reps?
  8. "Assumed the role of"
  9. Adjectives from names
  10. DECtalk voice of Stephen Hawking

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 8

  1. Double -er in fruiterer
  2. Mario Vargas Llosa
  3. E-mail reply etiquette
  4. Distinguish spoken Wallon from French

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 9

  1. Old Latin and Greek translation
  2. French place names containing the letter “Ŭ”
  3. Not a tyrant or dictator
  4. God willing
  5. Goebbels

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 10

  1. Expression, Phrase or Term?
  2. Need German translation
  3. Chinese
  4. Klingon alphabet

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 11

  1. 'Foot-perfect'?
  2. How do I pronounce this name
  3. Politeness in English

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 12

  1. Colourful verbs
  2. "Origin of 'going to the John' " question from the Reference Desk/Humanities
  3. Out-Google Google?

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 13

  1. French verbs
  2. Gender of non-Romance toponyms in Spanish
  3. What language is this?
  4. French

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 14

  1. what's the arabic script say/mean in this photo?
  2. Last names
  3. Antananarivo = Tananariv?

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 15

  1. Looking for better phrasing
  2. Part of a tree
  3. Latin translation please.
  4. "Perfide" (fr.) and "perfidious" (Eng.)

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 16

  1. German word gender
  2. "shine" as a slur for a black person
  3. Word for piece of ground upon which UK Motorway Service Area is built?
  4. french de

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 17

  1. Rake building
  2. How many words?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 18

  1. Request for translation: English to Thai
  2. How to pronounce Mettā?
  3. Function pointer
  4. Hindi
  5. Yo maricón

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 19

  1. Japanese language question
  2. Japanese alphanumeric codes
  3. Kid -- the young of the goat and the young of the human, are they related somehow?
  4. Dear Whom It may concern,
  5. Not quite paranoid

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 20

  1. Book says this sentence is correct:
  2. Fluency in a language in a year?
  3. where do the most beautiful women live?
  4. is this irony?
  5. Hyphen in Dutch cabinet names
  6. English to Spanish translation request
  7. meaning of a word
  8. how to remember a.m. and p.m.
  9. British English

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 21

  1. Spatial timeline
  2. "If" means, both: "provided that", and: "whether".
  3. Summary proofreading
  4. Italian "ne" -- what is it, grammatically?
  5. Alternative "Shakespeare" theories - claimants, candidates, what?
  6. Hung Huang reading

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 22

  1. Kanji variants
  2. Irish Pronunciation
  3. Odd positioning of tilde to replace "fi"
  4. To
  5. Adding a comma changes the meaning
  6. Is this a misuse of the verb "deplore"?
  7. Chinese poems
  8. Abbreviation of "million"
  9. French pronunciation

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 23

  1. French ne
  2. Long speech by a character
  3. The term "half-staff" in the UK, Ireland, India and other English-speaking countries
  4. Meridiem (Latin)
  5. Is this a perfectly cromulent word?
  6. Adjectives

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 24

  1. The Conn
  2. Spanish graffito
  3. Irish Surname

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 25

  1. Dem Deutschen Volke

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 26

  1. Jhalan and Lohoni
  2. Stereotyped accents in Spanish
  3. English speech speed
  4. "Spouting forth"?

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 27

  1. "Coming from a good family"
  2. Are there formal rules for Gibraltan language?
  3. Ford and Lincoln
  4. Double-duty word in headline
  5. Anonymous letter
  6. Myths about origins of language
  7. English Speakers

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 28

  1. "successfully completed" and "successfully passed"
  2. meaning of "except to the extent expressly provided for"
  3. Chinese characters to pinyin?
  4. Henning's weird accent

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 29

  1. original language of the natives of CYPRUS
  2. Linguistic research methods
  3. Spoken French comprehension
  4. Etymology and meaning of scradging
  5. Accents

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 30

  1. de:Kanzlei, da:Kancelli, etc.
  2. Japanese coin
  3. Names of French Origin
  4. "Ding dong the bitch is dead"
  5. Speech speed

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 31

  1. Reese'ses
  2. Mercury, Saturn, and Subaru
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