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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 1

1. British passport languages

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 2

1. Name of certain Polish/Slavic verbal formations
2. Paths are mundane
3. drawing my sight up and on and over
4. pronunciation of Utsi
5. Don't talk too soon
6. Self-executing

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 3

1. What happened to the noun for "despise"?
2. The Languages of China

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 4

1. Chinese reading of these characters?
2. Multiple apostrophes?
3. treble/triple - AmerEng vs BrEng

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 5

1. Plural form of harness
2. sun and air
3. Chinese Pronunciation
4. Wikipedian's experiences of Rosetta Stone software.
5. I could be happier
6. Help to find an article, apparently in Chinese Wikipedia
7. Japanese help with characters on brooch

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 6

1. French verbs conjugate like other French verbs
2. authenticated copy vs. certified true copy
3. If your parents die when you're an adult, are you an orphan?
4. Chinese help

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 7

1. plain public road
2. Addon

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 8

1. Around/Round
2. The Latin derivation of "conscious"
3. Smoke evacuation

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 9

1. Non IE phonemes
2. wrongly vs. wrong
3. philistine vs. Philistine
4. Meaning of "Held in the wing"
5. "to spell" as used by Stephen Crane in The Open Boat
6. the word "cauldron" during operation Barbarossa
7. Speculations
8. Lenin/Lenina
9. Talk:Horsburgh Lighthouse
10. We still capitalize "internet," don't we?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 10

1. Number in a sequence
2. Psalms in meter
3. Using "through" and "by" correctly in a single sentence?
4. wonder (verb)
5. Using "for" to imply a contrast

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 12

1. it is not a moment before time
2. French verbs that have same meaning but used differently
3. Detailed programmic specificity
4. Jay Bird
5. Yer/Ye

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 13

1. Zebra crossings in en-gb
2. Unaccredited actors [sic]
3. Chinese characters
4. word
5. Latino Lover
6. Classical pronounciation of Latin

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 14

1. Identify this accent.
2. Origin of phrase
3. Why is I capitalised?
4. Why do accents use specific sounds
5. Long/Large

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 15

1. German ui
2. "Read more" or "more" sentences inserted into online news articles
3. What does this sign say?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 16

1. Swedish Language = Easy to learn?
2. Etymology of Comet
3. Casting a spell

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 17

1. German speakers: What does this mean in English?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 18

1. Cham alphabet fonts?
2. English Etymological Dictionary

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 19

1. Opposite of dense?
2. Plattdeutsch nickname - original name

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 20

1. Belgian Surname
2. Settling place name disagreements
3. David Cameron saying "step up to the plate"?
4. Tête-bêche in a sentence en francais
5. An Irish slang?
6. Teochew romanization

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 21

1. What is X?
2. Term for the U.S. plus Canada (or: North America minus Mexico)
3. Japanese help: PohnpeiAirport.jpg
4. self subsisting
5. Help with Swedish!
6. In, On or At

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 22

1. Japanese translation?
2. The weather is nice.
3. how do you pronounce ɦ ?
4. Plural or not?

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 23

1. FAO and the NATO
2. Chinese help: Mandarin street names of Toronto Chinatown streets
3. verb doubt
4. Difference between written and spoken language
5. Canuckois dialect in USA
6. capital letters in some articles
7. U'

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 24

1. Who invented the sh- thing
2. Irish word: "Camailín?"
3. Fernando Alonso's Spanish

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 25

1. French without subjects
2. beat the expert - origin

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 26

1. "burning in hell" metaphor
2. Term for singing better than speaking?
3. Written works by Chelsea Manning
4. Brackets in some letters
5. Another question about on/in
6. Reżyseria

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 27

1. Unfixed plurals
2. Shortest sentence
3. some problem or any problem?
4. Japanese question

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 29

1. x than any other y or ys
2. Finnish dairy products
3. Angle brackets for graphemes
4. Subjective vs. Objective Article?
5. Proto Evangelium (Latin)
6. Why is "larger" less large than "large"?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 30

1. Using the word " seeing "
2. As/Like
3. Why did they use a Romance vocabulary?

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 31

1. Accused vs Culprit
2. Sssh/Hush
3. What is the Arabic graffiti?
4. "Autumn" and "Fall"