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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 1

  1. Quick brown fox of IPA? (Phonetic pangram?)
  2. Rare sounds
  3. one more question
  4. What do taxidermists do?
  5. ffebruary
  6. Spanish caja -> cajón, taza -> tazón
  7. Changing gender ?

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 2

  1. Wages of sin is death
  2. Nervous in the service
  3. Examples of the type "I saw the bomb burst".
  4. Translation request Lithuanian (?) to English
  5. Hindi: meaning of word on sign, appears to be सीनेकी

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 3

  1. Different past tenses of "hang"
  2. Comma usage
  3. "Grandma's back forty"
  4. Help remembering a word

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 4

  1. estoy un perrito regazo or soy un perrito regazo
  2. Prohibitive mood in passive voice
  3. Adj-N mismatch

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 5

  1. What's the word I'm looking for

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 6

  1. Rhyming "root" with "foot"
  2. Rational national

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 7

  1. Why does Old English capitalize random words?
  2. Chinese dialects
  3. Canadian accent
  4. "Turn of the last century"
  5. essay
  6. Chinese or Japanese translation please
  7. Finnish translation: Artist's archived website contains address: his, or his reps?
  8. "Assumed the role of"
  9. Adjectives from names
  10. DECtalk voice of Stephen Hawking

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 8

  1. Double -er in fruiterer
  2. Mario Vargas Llosa
  3. E-mail reply etiquette
  4. Distinguish spoken Wallon from French

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 9

  1. Old Latin and Greek translation
  2. French place names containing the letter “Ŭ”
  3. Not a tyrant or dictator
  4. God willing
  5. Goebbels

October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 10

  1. Expression, Phrase or Term?
  2. Need German translation
  3. Chinese
  4. Klingon alphabet

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 11

  1. 'Foot-perfect'?
  2. How do I pronounce this name
  3. Politeness in English

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 12

  1. Colourful verbs
  2. "Origin of 'going to the John' " question from the Reference Desk/Humanities
  3. Out-Google Google?

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 13

  1. French verbs
  2. Gender of non-Romance toponyms in Spanish
  3. What language is this?
  4. French

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 14

  1. what's the arabic script say/mean in this photo?
  2. Last names
  3. Antananarivo = Tananariv?

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 15

  1. Looking for better phrasing
  2. Part of a tree
  3. Latin translation please.
  4. "Perfide" (fr.) and "perfidious" (Eng.)

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 16

  1. German word gender
  2. "shine" as a slur for a black person
  3. Word for piece of ground upon which UK Motorway Service Area is built?
  4. french de

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 17

  1. Rake building
  2. How many words?

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 18

  1. Request for translation: English to Thai
  2. How to pronounce Mettā?
  3. Function pointer
  4. Hindi
  5. Yo maricón

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 19

  1. Japanese language question
  2. Japanese alphanumeric codes
  3. Kid -- the young of the goat and the young of the human, are they related somehow?
  4. Dear Whom It may concern,
  5. Not quite paranoid

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 20

  1. Book says this sentence is correct:
  2. Fluency in a language in a year?
  3. where do the most beautiful women live?
  4. is this irony?
  5. Hyphen in Dutch cabinet names
  6. English to Spanish translation request
  7. meaning of a word
  8. how to remember a.m. and p.m.
  9. British English

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 21

  1. Spatial timeline
  2. "If" means, both: "provided that", and: "whether".
  3. Summary proofreading
  4. Italian "ne" -- what is it, grammatically?
  5. Alternative "Shakespeare" theories - claimants, candidates, what?
  6. Hung Huang reading

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 22

  1. Kanji variants
  2. Irish Pronunciation
  3. Odd positioning of tilde to replace "fi"
  4. To
  5. Adding a comma changes the meaning
  6. Is this a misuse of the verb "deplore"?
  7. Chinese poems
  8. Abbreviation of "million"
  9. French pronunciation

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 23

  1. French ne
  2. Long speech by a character
  3. The term "half-staff" in the UK, Ireland, India and other English-speaking countries
  4. Meridiem (Latin)
  5. Is this a perfectly cromulent word?
  6. Adjectives

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 24

  1. The Conn
  2. Spanish graffito
  3. Irish Surname

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 25

  1. Dem Deutschen Volke

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 26

  1. Jhalan and Lohoni
  2. Stereotyped accents in Spanish
  3. English speech speed
  4. "Spouting forth"?

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 27

  1. "Coming from a good family"
  2. Are there formal rules for Gibraltan language?
  3. Ford and Lincoln
  4. Double-duty word in headline
  5. Anonymous letter
  6. Myths about origins of language
  7. English Speakers

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 28

  1. "successfully completed" and "successfully passed"
  2. meaning of "except to the extent expressly provided for"
  3. Chinese characters to pinyin?
  4. Henning's weird accent

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 29

  1. original language of the natives of CYPRUS
  2. Linguistic research methods
  3. Spoken French comprehension
  4. Etymology and meaning of scradging
  5. Accents

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 30

  1. de:Kanzlei, da:Kancelli, etc.
  2. Japanese coin
  3. Names of French Origin
  4. "Ding dong the bitch is dead"
  5. Speech speed

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 31

  1. Reese'ses
  2. Mercury, Saturn, and Subaru
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