Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2011
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- King consort
- Norwegian languages
- looking forward to "join" vs "joining"
- Gascon Occitan question
- Verboten
May 4[edit]
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May 5[edit]
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- Numbers
- Saddam Hussein, Goldilocks and Mother
- What is the opposite of Ambivalence ?
- Atlantic or atlantic
- German:Hauptveranst
- Castilian Spanish
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May 8[edit]
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- Classical Chinese
- "He has a duck" in Russian
- Japanese Onomatopaeic Expressions
- Dogs Bollocks
- bit o' Spanish
- Bloody 'ell
- Identifying mystery language
May 9[edit]
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May 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 10
- Could some translate this Sentence for me?
- In what case should I put the word accompanying "У"?
- Special use of "you"
- wut did abraham lincoln sound like when he talked
- Every Third Thought
May 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 11
- Español
- Is the [http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Scots Language Wikipedia] tounge in cheek?
- English Grammer
- Morass rose as high as it die
- plait/plate?
- Help trying to find Korean version of accident report
- Slavic words consisting only of consonants
- Can phobia mean hatred?
May 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 12
- Toe heal?
- Republics and democracies in Modern Greek
- Question about /ɛ/
- "Tuttavia"?
- French adjectives
May 13[edit]
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May 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 14
- Official English Name for Japanese Organisation
- Whence vs. from whence
- What is the honorific treatment for a friar?
- Interpretation of words spelled the same
- summarizing English language, history, and culture with a brief line or two of verse?
- Kardomah
- Is there a free-licensed list of the 65,536 most common English words?
May 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 15
- approximately how many ancient Greek writers would we have any material at all from?
- Prooemium
- German estzett versus Greek beta?
- Know thyself
- very pregnant
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May 20[edit]
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- Name in Arabic
- Use of apostrophe with verbal noun
- Geeks only, maybe: the AT-sign in Latin@
- German-to-English translation
May 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 21
- Flattery that's hard to understand
- Sentence in the Article Problem of evil
- Synthetic language?
- Are north and south strongly connected with up and down everywhere?
May 22[edit]
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May 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 23
- Why is Wikipedia not in italics?
- Meaning of "smell like soup"
- "Drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
- "Going stag"
- French and Italian legislation titles
- American vs. British English
- Due by - due when?
- Yang (surname) media source
- Bow-wow in Canada and Australia
- Nonsense on Paper
- Browsing
- Académie française
May 24[edit]
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May 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 25
- How old is the English langauge?
- 2 Question about the English Language
- English dialects or accents in Northern Canada
May 26[edit]
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May 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 27
- a "safe" conviction
- Need help with Arabic reference
- Identifying mystery language, Part 2 (Ewe?)
- Suspicious usages
- Chinese language help
- Objective test versus subjective test
May 28[edit]
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May 29[edit]
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May 30[edit]
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- Possessive apostrophe at the end of sentence
- Translation: Mandarin to English
- Online reference desks
- What does this Chinese say?
- It was him playing