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June 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 1

Stetler or Hostetler
Shakalaka
Easiest languages to learn?
'slinger
Cyclopedia -vs- Encyclopedia
"duck-down jacket"
What does "crown 8vo" mean?
Silly Q

June 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 2

A quick lesson in grammar
Bringardner and Baumgartner?
known and unknown
German to English
alf as cheap

June 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 3

Derivation or Etymology
"Full of action"
Definitions: "agalma" and "plotin"
Place names etymologies in England
What do these Irish words mean?
Second

June 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 4

man listening to disc
I Carré about the spelling
Latin Harry Potter translation
military pronunciation of cache

June 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 5

anja Document.
Language choice
Translation from English
WTF in Chinese

June 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 6

Grammar, what sharp teeth you have
Further or farther a field or afield
Products becoming common names.
What was this edit meant to say?
Word that means......

June 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 7

Weird incident
Learning Hanzi/Kanji
suffixies
Correct spelling or word use
The Date
from Pride and Prejudice

June 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 8

negative words
"Try and"
Translation from German
Derivation
IPA n

June 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 9

"Maria's motorcycle helmet"
"-i" in feminine names
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ling: Female given name only?
German-to-English translation request
erman genders and plurals
Spanish double negation
Haiku Rules

June 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 10

Unicode Question
do they speak english?
formal and informal english
Japanese translation needed, thank you!

June 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 11

Euphemisms for "diarrhea sickness"
hello (foreign)
Learning a foreign language.

June 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 12

"Motion lines"
Writing a speech - valedictorian
"heathen" vs. "pagan"
languAge and dreams?
/æ/ in katakana

June 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 13

anji
Whose
Phonetics and phonology of English and ...
proper use of the word riparius?!
Arabic translation
opyedit

June 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 14

Gramatically Correct
Japanese title usage
Language Speciation
Is this correct English?
Frau Doktor
"Only God Can Judge Me" in French
Capitalization
Stress patterns in Slavic languages

June 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 15

The difference between "should" and "ought to"
puke
linguistics
Question about capitalization

June 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 16

GOOD NOON
Strange word orders
Looking for a quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Latin Translation, Please

June 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 17

erb tense
eaning of "Francois c'est pas flashe non deux"
Martial arts terminology
English dialects used in drama

June 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 18

se of "And" in the beginning of a sentence
deosyncratic orthography at St. Nicholas Magazine
The Cockroach by Kevin Halligan
Cadence for marching prisoners, in German, ca. WWII
Latin translation needed - please.
unctuation
Unnamed Short Story

June 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 19

Most readable writing system
How to read "router"?
Farging
World War II related sentence
Word ending in ....advert
Hindi(?) translation:

June 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 20

Abdul Rehman Al-Sudais
Definition
orry if this is a stupid/oft asked question
Adverb with quantifier?
What to link in a Reference

June 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 21

"Hesher" definitions gone--what happened to them?
Regular allophonic pair in English
Lick ...
That's too bad/What a shame
Identifing an accent
Names of Latin letters in Greek language
What does "walk-down" mean?
What's a motto with you?

June 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 22

Correct third-person past tense of scream
what is the meaning of "how about a hand for Harry"
anged versus Hung
ay/December Marriage
help with a printing term?
Technical Term for Italicized Thougts in Literature
Etymology

June 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 23

"Rapier" in Hindi
Are there any words in Nepali that sound like...
copyedit or copy-edit or copy edit?
Guantánamo Bay
Machiavelli & Exclamation marks

June 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 24

Deleted entry
Word for glove maker?
Mingler
Using Wikipedia
resent Perfect Tense used for distant past events

June 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 25

If 'photo' means light in some language (greek?), what is that language's word for darkness?
I've got a preposition for you...
Spanish translation
riple s in geographical names
Toward vs towards
a/an FAQ
French etymological dictionary
Tones in Mandarin Songs