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There were a British airplane and sports car called "xxxxxx Rapide". Why was the 'e' added to "rapid" ? My guess: used the French spelling to make it sound more classy ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.139.183.13 (talk) 09:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps. It also probably made the name trademarkable, as 'rapid' could have been turned down as being too generically descriptive of a vehicle. Rhinoracer (talk) 12:43, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
How does one use Younger Futhark to write Old Norse/Icelandic? There doesn't seem to be a one-to-one correspondence between runes and ON/Icel. letters. --Śiva (talk) 16:46, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
That's just my question: If the Scandinavians had fewer runes than phonemes, how did they write their language? What rules did they use to map phonemes to runes? --Śiva (talk) 18:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
OK; how about the vowels? There seem to be only a, i, and ą. --Śiva (talk) 19:38, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
What was the governmental role of the regional languages of India (pre- and post-independence) before the States Reorganization Act? For example, was Tamil used as a governmental language in the Madras Presidency, or Kannada in Mysore State, or Telugu in Hyderabad, or Bengali in Bengal Province? Or did all these governments just use English (or Persian or Hindi-Urdu) as an administrative language? --Lazar Taxon (talk) 17:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I want to put a reference on how to pronounce a village name on a page - but am not sure how to go about it - help please!! The name is Navenby and it is prounced like the nave of a church - rather than like a navvie. But I don't know the correct little character thingys to use. Thankyou. --Seahamlass 18:57, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
What does "gabba gabba hey!" mean and where did it start from? JIP | Talk 21:38, 23 February 2008 (UTC)