Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2013
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January 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 1
- Does Aromanian possess grammatic cases?
- What is the word for a baby unicorn?
- Determination on reliability of Portuguese source needed
January 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 2
January 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 3
- Apostrophe & Pronunciation
- Pronunciation of "slew"
- "more slender" or "slenderer"?
- Number governed by "each"
- Bar at the top of the letter J
- Japanese question
January 4[edit]
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January 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 5
- Is endos a Japanese or English word and what does it mean?
- A man is knighted and a woman is...?
- Lay and laid
- Getting the shaft
- A rat by any other name...
- Cambodian/Khmer help
- Is there a database of lyrics with faulty language?
January 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 6
January 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 7
- Eragrostis = lovegrass : why that name ?
- Why does "unsafest" sound wrong?
- Subject, class, course ?
- Spanish
January 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 8
- Is "renowned" derived from a verb?
- Request for translation of Latin epitaph
- Pronunciation of "Lefebvre"
January 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 9
- Przy Pikrynie i Trotylu
- Difference between "Play" and "Drama"!
- Falling in Love Again - translation problem
January 10[edit]
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January 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 11
- Spanish/Galician help
- Website for obscure words
- History of Belgium
- Bill
- Voiceless dental affricate
- Mid 19th century (or earlier) dialect question..
- Help Identifying a Short Story - Kipling I think
- Board room
January 12[edit]
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January 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 13
January 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 14
- Need help with what this statement means?
- Term used to describe a technique
- Awkward phrasing: double negative sentence, what is the meaning?
- How to pronounce Leonowens
- Nursing in the UK
January 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 15
- "His face was drawn but the curtains were real"
- Appropriate word
- Collective nouns
- Wikivoyage related
January 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 16
- "Taped" = "pre-recorded", no matter what medium is really used?
- Bengali name for "Peel District School Board"
- Tuu tii tu tööti tuu
- The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
- Hindi and Punjabi names for New York City Department of Education
- Hebrew name for New York City Department of Education
January 17[edit]
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January 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 18
- Has the NYC-area phrase "to stand on line" replaced the phrase "to stand in line" in any other dialects?
- "A shot at the title"
- Of Mice and Men
- Chinese Syllabary?
- How to apologize in French
- Languages without distinct plurals ?
January 19[edit]
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January 20[edit]
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January 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 21
- Choose Your Own Adventure Book Cover Fonts
- aqua
- Is this a sentence?
- From Cinema to English Vocabulary
- Any definition difference between lights and colors
- What the Bible's book are most translated?
January 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 22
- Typos in Chinese and Japanese
- Proposing an ambiguous spelling
- Weird adage
- Letters as designations?
- What can you say about the readability of the short paragraph?
January 23[edit]
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January 24[edit]
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January 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 25
- Türkmenbaşy
- Use of "then".
- Is there an English equivalent to the Chinese proverb 好汉不吃眼前亏?
- Dependent and independent clauses
January 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 26
January 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 27
- Language evolution after disaster
- Pronunciation of "online": a or an before "online"?
- What is this accent?
January 28[edit]
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January 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 29
- Between / among
- Requesting translation from Italian to English
- Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力
- interbreeding vs. outbreeding
- Is contemporary then, now or either?
- Words with supposed antonyms but are actually synonyms?
- Stage Language
- Register and French/Germanic word origins
January 30[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 30
- Aboriginal swearing - Translation from Latin
- Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
- Short translation into Polish
- Is this really a rule in English?