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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 1

  1. French: Notre
  2. Account Deletion
  3. Learning a foreign language
  4. Fear of sheep
  5. What is the proper pronunciation for...
  6. Simple grammar question

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 2

  1. Citation question; this is a tricky one
  2. Arabic (or Farsi/Urdu?) to English translation requested
  3. A Dutch question
  4. Pronounciation of "Guillaume"
  5. "me repito como el ajo"
  6. Thamban
  7. Words with two x's
  8. "Get your freak on" origin
  9. Irony
  10. People v. Persons

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 3

  1. Danish translation
  2. Pronunciation of the French name "Villarceau"
  3. Prepatory ? Preparatory?
  4. "Can not" or "cannot"?
  5. translation?
  6. Question about an English idiom

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 4

  1. Plural of Filet-O-Fish
  2. Origin of the word Pussy
  3. memorious
  4. Shy away?
  5. Dutch names
  6. romeo and juliette
  7. What are all of the different ways to end a letter
  8. spelling of a word
  9. Can't find an answer. Please help.
  10. furnishing or furnishings
  11. Word ending in gry in American English; not angry or hungry
  12. Klingon and gender in Canada

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 5

  1. Mostellaria
  2. Eye Contact vs. Eyes Contact
  3. "Three Tall Women"
  4. Does anyone know of a secondary source for geek license ?
  5. what are the facts confirming the tie of slavery and religion
  6. Asterick in Proto Languages

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 6

  1. what word?
  2. Moluccas, Malay, etc vs Meluhha
  3. Little question
  4. Real Estate Terminology "FES"
  5. What language is this?
  6. Translate くどい

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 7

  1. Flock, herd, & cattle
  2. translation
  3. Deponent Verbs in English
  4. Lefebvre

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 8

  1. Latin curses
  2. Name pronunciation
  3. the crucible - english literature
  4. Plaque Question
  5. Standard Written English: Punctuation with Quotation Marks
  6. Quien Me Iba A Decir

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 9

  1. Is Flemish Mutually Intelligible With Dutch?
  2. Plodweaver
  3. Quotation of poetry mid-sentence in English
  4. Phellandrene
  5. Letter's of the alphabet in english to the cherokee alphabet
  6. Early word for "horny"?
  7. Latin term for "design and placement of shutters"
  8. What does "purple rain" mean as referenced in America's song "Ventura Highway"?
  9. Fear of the sky falling?

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 10

  1. Naming Conventions
  2. a sound
  3. Colonel
  4. Dante and modern Italian
  5. McVickar Professor
  6. Surnames
  7. Grammar
  8. nucular weapons
  9. Made from / made of
  10. Origin of English words

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 11

  1. Titles Of All Articles
  2. Delighting you Always or Always Delighting You?
  3. Translations
  4. 혜낫데
  5. SWANS
  6. Harper and harpist?
  7. Trumpeter?

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 12

  1. German
  2. APA 5th Edition
  3. Specacity
  4. Unfeasible or Infeasible
  5. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
  6. Addressing with titles
  7. Swarf.
  8. new pronoun
  9. Original citation from Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On [1987] is needed
  10. Dream of the Red Chamber
  11. ZERO hour?

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 13

  1. Alphabet
  2. Writing dialogue
  3. Ancient versus modern Egypt, in Arabic
  4. ball
  5. What ideaR am I talking about?
  6. I preguntar; you contestar, I might dar a prize for ganar!!

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 14

  1. Words with lots of vowels: cadiueio
  2. I was stupid...Please help!
  3. book et al..
  4. HDB

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 15

  1. Compound words
  2. Cry or call of a rabbit
  3. Game name
  4. The to de or ze
  5. Part participants

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Language/2006 October 16

  1. Communication board for deaf
  2. What Do You Call The Start Of An Article [But It Is NOT An Introduction]?
  3. Two bit

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 17

  1. language conversion
  2. "Ixnay on the Hombre"
  3. The French red big bus
  4. The little marks made by librarians in books. What are they? What are they called?
  5. Ignoring the question

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 18

  1. looking for the spelling of the name "SARAH" in hebrew
  2. could some one translate the spelling of princess into hebrew
  3. dont and duquel again
  4. Unsure about word
  5. German for Hot
  6. Translation

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 19

  1. French language: Suisse vs Suissesse
  2. "Erkamkana" translation
  3. guaranty
  4. "rust" in Spanish?
  5. What is the format of the questions asked in the National Vocabulary Competition?
  6. Chlorophyll
  7. Language of Accra

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 20

  1. Kangaroo sounds
  2. Learning Dutch.
  3. Etymology
  4. Magnetic flux density symbol B
  5. Pashto questions
  6. Punjabi
  7. Tamil
  8. Bumper / Bumber
  9. French word for 'potato chip' (US)/'crisp' (UK)
  10. Hebrew: Davka and Bidyuk

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 21

  1. Russian Translation for Ship Names, Please?
  2. Coffee Etymology
  3. '...ity' or '...ism'

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 22

  1. How to measure "at any time"
  2. The Following Fillintheblanks Are In The Language Of German. What Would I Fill In The Blanks?
  3. Welsh translation

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 23

  1. translation into Latin
  2. Adverbs at the start of sentences
  3. explain the word combination
  4. Apostrophes in science writing
  5. Quicquid conaris, quo pervenias cogites
  6. Somethingo-something
  7. What doesn't kill you...
  8. László Moholy-Nagy
  9. 'replace by' versus 'replace with'
  10. Feminine/Masculine Nounsand Definite Article agreement in Romance Languages

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 24

  1. French
  2. I need to know how to properly state a statement
  3. management
  4. Polish translation verification
  5. Inuktitut word meaning future & Inuktitut word meaning peace
  6. Could someone translate this for me?
  7. Why do we capitalize the word "I"
  8. meaning of word "semmit", from Scottish movie subtitle in "Dear Frankie"
  9. Japanese
  10. La plus que lente

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 25

  1. Mbida-Mbane / Syllables
  2. Secret Code
  3. Pronouncing other languages
  4. differance between hai & hello
  5. hotclaws**
  6. Blair's accent
  7. Hanja (Unihan Z-variant)
  8. Alphabetical order
  9. Movie Title namesake

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 26

  1. Subject Schmubject
  2. Hand Signals
  3. maths
  4. What countries speak French?
  5. Need WP standard request template translated to French
  6. Dear in German
  7. Derivation of the name "Schuylkill"

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 27

  1. Looking for the meaning
  2. Usage of "account for"
  3. explicit, implicit and inexplicit
  4. "make love with" versus "make love to"
  5. Strange double meaning on cereal TV ad
  6. skewboglish
  7. La plus que lente (2)

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 28

  1. Marnus
  2. Pronounciation of "unwonted"
  3. Right Usage
  4. Grammar Determiner
  5. ystery insect? Noun?
  6. nickname pompey

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 29

  1. Dog eat dog
  2. Virtual and Virtue
  3. "...have contributed to the production costs..."
  4. Origin of "hoik"
  5. Nobow
  6. A question about japanese

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 30

  1. AAVE Bible?
  2. "Make nothing of it"
  3. Vietnamese syntax and translation help
  4. erbs of Elimination
  5. Japanese name
  6. démerdes

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 October 31

  1. Cigarettes
  2. Looking for a word I can't remember
  3. Fetocide vs. feticide
  4. old polish words??
  5. S letter
  6. Rhyme
  7. A little Vietnamese, please.
  8. Edits
  9. angofu
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