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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 1

1. Spanish party name
2. Being a sugar daddy vs. keeping a mistress or concubine or prostitute
3. Hangul transliteration help
4. Pronunciation of Michele
5. Articles (or not) with epithets
6. The English word "mayhem"

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 2

1. Help to translate video about Sinenjongo High School

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 3

1. When did "coffee" become a countable noun?
2. German numbers

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 4

1. Is the French language recognized in Lebanon? I'm asking because I have some sceptics about my edit on its info-box?
2. Latin translation
3. Chinese help: Chinese name of Wayne Lo
4. Are the following sentences acceptable?
5. love vs. like vs. want, et cetera, in different languages
6. "Lace into" etymology
7. On Axis
8. First use of the word paedophilia

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 5

1. Translation please
2. Language and body size
3. For/Since/Because
4. Sentence needed

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 6

1. Verb confusion
2. One verb, multiple subjects
3. Some grammar misunderstanding

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 7

1. Apple of my eye
2. A question for the smarter members of the collective
3. Another question for the smarter members of the collective
4. From Old English to Middle English
5. Translation of Korean

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 8

1. Latin word for "month"
2. Engraving grammar
3. French subject repetition
4. Czech language question

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 9

1. Are we ready for "fishers"?
2. Syriac help
3. Abortionist
4. TESOL or CELTA
5. Putonghua

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 10

1. Burmese/Karen braille
2. Kopfblatt?
3. AUS English question
4. Helo

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 11

1. Transliteration of Hebrew without vowels
2. Reading of Graeco-Roman names
3. Other Greek and Latin words
4. I/Me/Myself
5. Question about pronouns
6. Correct word

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 12

1. Image of Fatimah
2. pronunciation of "surely"
3. Arabic and Tifinagh help
4. Spelling of Surname
5. Need Kurrent help
6. Commas

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 13

1. Spanish Wikipiedias
2. Pronounciamentos

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 14

1. Glottal stops in Canadian indigenous languages
2. Why are mini-organizations within a church called "ministries"?
3. Russian help for File:SPB Newski house 61.jpg
4. Definition needed for a word used in Colonial times in America
5. "There is a traffic commit on your route."

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 15

1. What word means "cousin or sibling"
2. IPA vowels and consonants
3. Name of literary device
4. Arabic help requested

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 16

1. Another question about pronouns
2. rasafrats

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 17

1. Russian-to-English translation
2. Dao lo lai le in Putonghua
3. Comma-n situation
4. Chinese help: Xidan Primary School
5. French subjunctive

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 18

1. Movies for Movie Lovers, Music for Music Lovers
2. How and when did "regular" come to mean "frequent"?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 19

1. Placement of adverbs in transitive-verb, English clauses. (By Mood.)
2. Lip reading and tonal languages

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 20

1. Non-multigraphs
2. What is the meaning of following sentence?
3. The first word with the meaning "word" written

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 21

1. Copy Editing Guidelines
2. Diabetes
3. Ambiguously parsed sentence
4. Spanish speakers in Texas

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 22

1. GI
2. Hard hat diver
3. Question about Japanese

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 23

1. Nerd v. Geek
2. Romanization of Arabic
3. Latin text from the title page of a book

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 24

1. Japanese movie wallpaper, what's the name of the movie
2. Cannon metaphors

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 25

1. German and French
2. "I don't know who is he". Is this an acceptable sentence in the spoken language?
3. Sunday = week

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 26

1. the meaning of "give you lot an inch and you take a bloody mile"
2. Dear Madams?
3. Spanish ll and Italian gl
4. Cooling candle wax
5. Why are television reporters cliche magnets?
6. Ph vs F in terms of root source.

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 28

1. Your Nadals, your Sharapovas
2. How can I get the etimology of the term "mono-nucleosis"?

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 29

1. What is the meaning of "pecker?"
2. French meanings
3. What is the original Japanese version of this Chinese translation?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 November 30

1. “Experiencing disconnection helps individuals come to a greater sense of acceptance” - English speech concept?
2. Capitalization of royal titles