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May 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 1

  1. Words from the song
  2. Japanese writing systems

May 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 2

  1. Meaning of cochorn
  2. Lyrics
  3. -ery and other things
  4. Difference between "repetitive and "repetitious"
  5. Hellenic Language link in front page of wikipedia.com

May 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 3

  1. French question.
  2. "Yog-Sothoth"
  3. Voiceless labial-velar approximant
  4. Turkish terminal "-r" sounding like "-rzh" or "-rsh"
  5. "Long-lived"

May 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 4

  1. Colons vs comma
  2. Gender of collections of nouns in German

May 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 5

  1. Snacks and snack bars in German
  2. presentness as opposed to presence
  3. New def of cynical ?
  4. Pronunciation of "vitamin" history question
  5. Need a Portuguese translation

May 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 6

  1. Characters in the name Liu Buchan
  2. Russian - loanwords with 'g' instead of 'h'?
  3. French election jokes

May 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 7

  1. 4th-iary
  2. Spanish abbreviations
  3. Do love, do friends
  4. There are already questions about François Hollande
  5. Japanese stroke order

May 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 8

  1. Pronunciation: where is the stress of "as if"? on "as" or on "if"?
  2. french gender suffix
  3. Albeit

May 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 9

  1. West African surname
  2. なる (Japanese)

May 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 10

  1. How do you label an amount of nothing, such as 0 bee(s). Would I be correct in treating nothing like a plural?(English language)
  2. Korean translation
  3. ş alt code

May 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 11

  1. Pronunciation of Sans Pareil

May 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 12

  1. Pat in the middle
  2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
  3. Pleasantly surprised
  4. Userpage Translation

May 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 13

  1. What is the correct reading for "鹿目?"
  2. Hand meaning skill
  3. Hakuna matata
  4. "ever" in Spanish

May 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 14

  1. Buttercup sandwiches
  2. Etymology of an Afrikaans standard expression
  3. Ever ever a verb?

May 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 16

  1. Japanese emotional words missing
  2. Foxes
  3. Citation style at UK universities
  4. Looking for grammatical help

May 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 17

  1. Bronze two-pounders
  2. Grammar checker like grammarly or whitesmoke
  3. Kant (German)
  4. What's an "of character"?
  5. Of onions and tildes
  6. "Official" website
  7. Origin of "What mockery is this?"

May 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 18

  1. Accents in English
  2. Detail évocateur
  3. "cosa es de reír o de llora" (spain)
  4. Demonyms and their uses

May 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 19

  1. Reverted to a long wait of Fail. Angry was Heo Mok.

May 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 20

  1. Consonant clusters
  2. Tone deaf, intonational languages
  3. Origin of "You set 'em up, I'll knock 'em down"?
  4. Sichuan Mandarin
  5. Posh but polite department store
  6. R
  7. Platypodes
  8. "Buckwheat" as pejorative/racial term before 1934

May 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 21

  1. Definition of phrase "one-handed novel"
  2. Check grammar, spelling and more
  3. "5th avenue executive"
  4. Chapter recall or review

May 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 22

  1. Verse in Rudyard Kipling's poem If—
  2. Russian letter in Hunt for Red October
  3. Punctuation for a list of questions.
  4. Reingequasselt? English translation?

May 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 23

  1. Napoleon Bonaparte quotation: request for translation
  2. Syntax
  3. Sabse Himmat Wala Kon?

May 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 24

  1. Albanian-to-English translation
  2. Sun Tzu quote
  3. articles

May 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 25

  1. How Is Gender Assigned to New Words in Gender-Specific Languages?
  2. Japanese question

May 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 26

  1. Lux Aurumque
  2. Is this phrase grammatically correct?

May 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 27

  1. Discourage as an antonym
  2. Non-American software
  3. Vocal imitation of Hitler
  4. A Pangram of Sounds

May 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 28

  1. Font for Persian
  2. Collapsed like a bad chair on a black Monday
  3. Proper noun - Rivers and connecting article subject to the river.
  4. Passé composé
  5. Best natural universal language?
  6. Creoles
  7. Sam Wanamaker

May 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 29

  1. Language evolution
  2. Arabic question about a merchant inn
  3. Indian Ocean Trade

May 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 31

  1. Phoning
  2. Shrew bread
  3. lanaugue
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