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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 1

  1. Roman Emperors' names

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 2

  1. Use of IPA for general purposes
  2. CV Objective
  3. I need help writing a romantic letter - a clever one
  4. Requesting translation from a Cyrillic-alphabet language, almost certainly Russian
  5. Geico gekko
  6. is there a verb tense (in any language) that does all three of these at the same time?

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 3

  1. List of 1000 most common French words
  2. Monthly anniversary called "Mensiversary"
  3. Why is there a J in 'Juventus'?
  4. Expats using local words even if there is an English equivalent

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 4

  1. Kanji Pernounciation
  2. A question about some interrogative words in English

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 5

  1. Help me with this report
  2. Bbiblical book abbreviations in northern European languages
  3. IPA mouth shapes
  4. How to write IPA by hand.
  5. Ordinary words suddenly become strange and unfamiliar?
  6. Looking for a language with the following two attributes:

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 6

  1. Word for people worried about current moral decay
  2. IPA question
  3. Punctuation
  4. The two pronunciation systems of J and Y

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 7

  1. The missing Arlésienne
  2. Slang word for "understand" with sci-fi origin
  3. Learning an African language for "fun"
  4. words translated to Spanish

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 8

  1. Forms referring to somebody doing an action
  2. Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel
  3. Emergency rhyme

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 9

  1. Lambda
  2. Are both sentences the same?

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 10

  1. Gallus gallus
  2. "contract conclusion" meaning entering into vs. finishing a contract?
  3. Translation from Polish (?) Bulgarian

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 11

  1. Low German map
  2. Does grammar reflect the structure of the human world?
  3. Biblical name meanings

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 12

  1. Term for scholarly or literary "detective work"
  2. What is a word?
  3. Off
  4. "0.57 second" or "0.57 seconds"?

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 13

  1. English creoles
  2. Arabic
  3. bejeebees

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 14

  1. Is there any living language, other than English, which makes a full distinction between: "in", "at", "to"?
  2. What are the easiest natural languages for studying by non-natives?
  3. Is there any English word having double-h, except for "withhold" (and its derivatives, e.g. withheld etc.)?

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 15

  1. "Oink Oink" in Greek
  2. Unknown chinese fabric item
  3. The quality of being altruistic
  4. Yet another German question - (be)fragen
  5. For fun only (macro-areal feature?)
  6. Frances
  7. Japanese translation of martial arts title

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 16

  1. Boccaccio
  2. Off with his/her/their head(s)!
  3. Enjoying someone's support
  4. Third cousin twice removed
  5. Perfect anagrams of notable people's names
  6. Old English words

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 17

  1. Looking for translation
  2. Caesarion = Little Caesar?

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 18

  1. What kind of hat is this?
  2. confidentiality
  3. Russian heaven?

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 19

  1. ASL Sign Identification
  2. two words, Gaelic to English translation
  3. Al-Qaeda as name
  4. american weevil

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 20

  1. Accent
  2. Akkadian logograms
  3. Name for particular expression

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 21

  1. Unfortunate or intentional?
  2. Origin and explanation of common definitions of Atheism
  3. german spelling
  4. Pronunciation of River Lugg
  5. The new Great Vowel Shift
  6. Italian to English Translation

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 22

  1. Seminal architect
  2. german math translation
  3. British Dialect Question.
  4. What does वृन्दावन क्षाम mean?
  5. Spoken ambiguity

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 23

  1. Need translation
  2. A term for little things
  3. drug dealer referral
  4. wikipedia etiquette
  5. program of c
  6. 1984
  7. English Umlaut?

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 24

  1. Is there a word for this:
  2. Old Irish pronunciations
  3. Swadesh-type list
  4. Toward
  5. read and write
  6. Maghrebi Arabic Translation?
  7. Igor Kurchatov
  8. (Old) German surname
  9. Horse A was "foaled by" horse B

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 25

  1. Circumbobulate
  2. Pronunciation of Grzegorczyk (Polish)
  3. French nasal vowels
  4. Pluralisation of sports teams

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 26

  1. Umlauts
  2. English punctuation here
  3. Making Little Words From Big Words
  4. How many Czars?
  5. 'Honeypot' in German?

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 27

  1. Rolling Rs
  2. Welsh pronunciation
  3. Comic
  4. Chinese
  5. Hebrew transliteration
  6. Fixing errors
  7. Filmology
  8. Medial consonant clusters in Spanish

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 28

  1. Welsh language

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 29

  1. "Cntr + Alt + Del situation"
  2. Short latin phrase
  3. Lofty Latin
  4. voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ in the Piedmontese language
  5. Ares I-X
  6. Kara

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 30

  1. How does Admiral Masorin's name translate and is it Ukrainian?
  2. Pronunciation of Ernestine
  3. English - Meaning of "separatism"
  4. Chinese Sentences Translation
  5. Two pronunciation questions
  6. Finnish auxiliary verbs

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 31

  1. idiom as a noun
  2. Russian dialects
  3. Proper Nouns
  4. what is the meaning of this Chinese comment on my wiki entry?
  5. Pachakutiq, Pachacútec, Pachacuti
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