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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 1

1. Words for counting days
2. negatively phrased questions in court
3. Multilingual National Anthems?

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 2

1. Writing numbers
2. Can I person get a high school diploma if I take a placement test
3. Crocodile wife
4. Is this grammatically correct?
5. Map translation
6. International gesture for money
7. Map translation 2

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 3

1. Wood
2. Twice
3. "Alter Strom" or "Alte Strom" ("Old River") or both in the English Wikipedia?
4. Seeking Burmese Language Contributors
5. to test reading habits
6. Midwestern Dialect

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 4

1. I don't have an accent! Do I?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 5

1. Wiping floors
2. questionaire for testing the habbit of english reading habits
3. Glasgow patter vs 'normal' English

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 6

1. Are these Japanese sentences grammatically correct?
2. Veränderungsmeldungen
3. Plurals and group names
4. translation of english to transylvania old script.

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 7

1. Miscounting the letter "F"
2. Japanese translation
3. Another is/are
4. vegetables
5. Russian question
6. Khaned/Khanned OR Khaganed/Khaganned?

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 8

1. Plural for staff
2. English-bilingual people online
3. Egotism
4. Human-read articles
5. Another Russian question
6. Toon-to-Japanese

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 9

1. Wikipoetry
2. Classifications of persons
3. Names for the Grand Canyon.
4. differences
5. Poem: To bed, to bed said Leatherhead .. (I don't know any more)
6. Finding a girl

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 10

1. Math vs. Maths
2. Urdu
3. Table(au)
4. Dialogue question
5. Singular of Rice Krispies
6. Un stockage dans
7. Spanish verb "castrar" with "birthday" as the object
8. The meaning of this Poem
9. wikiboxes: prescriptivism versus descriptivism
10. Where should I put the adverb?
11. Both a strength and a weakness

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 11

1. Deafblindness
2. Close - But no Cigar.
3. Question on Japanese counters
4. A good comeback
5. What language is this in?
6. lipid
7. Meaning of "either"
8. Variations of "4"-- er, I mean "death" in Japanese

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 12

1. Monte Davidoff
2. Latin language
3. "There do exist some"
4. Feminist language
5. Lio
6. Ringer test
7. Longest One-Sylable Words
8. TV "set"
9. Goats
10. grammar of affliction
11. History of writing
12. How to render a name in IPA

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 13

1. Kate Nash's accent
2. Women in some ways have innately better
3. Dajare in the comic strip
4. All right...I'm fed up.
5. word information

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 14

1. Matthew
2. 'ser' and 'set' in Venetian discourse
3. German phrase on train window
4. What is meant by the use of the word "sick" when used in sporting events?
5. Drains Up Review
6. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 14#Pardon my   French  <.2Fstrike> English|Pardon my   French   English]]
7. Translation from Hungarian

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 15

1. Articles
2. Missing articles
3. Small words
4. Translate
5. Text of historical plaque, :de:en:
6. German?

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 16

1. Correct Translation?
2. What part of the USA is this accent from
3. what's the meaning of the words as follows
4. Metastasised
5. Untitled
6. The reverse of "orphan"

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 17

1. Mexican Webpage
2. in mediis rebus
3. "To hoover" in Russian

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 18

1. ...increase the sensitivity of MSP to around one alelle in 50 000
2. Memoirs
3. a word that describes a pictogram

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 19

1. slang origin
2. The word "professional" as accolade in products
3. Somali lectures
4. How do you pronounce this?
5. Using an apostrophe to indicate possesion
6. red fruits
7. English spelling of "Masters thesis"
8. "Say this!", or "Say that!"

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 20

1. How to say it?
2. Is "manslaughter" politically correct?
3. The gir is cute as a freaking button
4. Bamburgh
5. BDSM support group?
6. Five cats and 32 dogs

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 21

1. Learning to write properly: how long does it take?
2. Weird Spanish Grammar
3. Musical Instrument in Japanese
4. Jaber Elbaneh, the al-Qaeda operative ...
5. Pronunciation
6. Ancient One-Liner
7. country/ ies of origin
8. Multiple Apostrophes

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 22

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 22#|]]
2. Feminine counties
3. Footnote formatting
4. Swearing
5. British Accent and indian pronunciation
6. Lead me to the truth
7. Voicing in English phonetics
8. Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives
9. Japanese translation
10. english language
11. Romanisation of Chinese names
12. Japanese! (From a song)

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 23

1. Irish orthography
2. Fucking bitch vs. fucked bitch
3. Commented editions of English literature

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 24

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 24#|]]
2. Plastic artist
3. Reading quotations

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 25

1. Double acronyms
2. Somali and Arabic
3. How can I learn to write better?
4. Signs on artwork
5. Untitled
6. Placebo effect
7. IPA for Oier Olazábal
8. grammar

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 26

1. Hindi and Bengali: mutually understandable
2. Pronounciation on the pinyin "zh"

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 27

1. Where to put "from"?
2. [the?] Westermarkt, Amsterdam
3. Comanche
4. Looking for a specific term
5. Pronunciation of Greek gods/goddesses

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 28

1. Translation from German to English
2. El resto de/The rest of/La reste de
3. burrstone
4. Doe? What does 'does mean here? If it is a misspell of what word?
5. Subject headline
6. Needing substitute for trite cliché
7. Jianhe River

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 29

1. foreigner or alien
2. Dutch Translation
3. Origin of Mickey
4. internet language: smilies
5. Definite article usage
6. Eddie Izzard
7. Shipoopi

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 30

1. Greeting in an email
2. Chinese characters
3. Name of this language bastardization method?
4. quod pro quo

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 May 31

1. squameus, omnisciens ac benevolus
2. Quelle collection
3. English, "bother", meanings
4. Noun phrases without a determiner