Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2015

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= December 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 1

1. Is the word total singular or plural or both?

= December 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 2

1. Doubling final consonant
2. wie es eigentlich geworden ist

= December 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 3

1. Convert Russian GPS format to English
2. Can you decipher this tattoo in Hebrew?
3. Question about "ghast..." words

= December 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 4

1. Esperanto
2. Hindu question

= December 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 5

1. Who is or was Hadia Bejar?

= December 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 6

1. Transcription of a line from a video

= December 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 7

1. Which programming languages allow trailing commas?
2. Do Story

= December 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 8

1. Who came up first with U and J?

= December 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 9

1. Addressing a Formal French Envelope

= December 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 10

1. Lemony Snicket word
2. Very vs much; MS Word grammar advice
3. Maya glottal stop: Typography
4. Animal equivalent to "personality" ?

= December 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 11

1. Link Grammar

= December 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 12

1. I don't give a damn

= December 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 14

1. Your man
2. How many native speakers of English would consider "am become" ungrammatical?
3. Slovenian street name question

= December 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 15

1. It was carried out root canal treatment on one of the UK’s largest gorillas. English?
2. West Indie

= December 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 16

1. Constancy of Hebrew ?
2. 'Typical or 'atypical': Does either of them mean 'difficult'?

= December 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 17

1. A/an with "herbivore"
2. Dropping the "h" in "human"

= December 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 18

1. English = genderless?

= December 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 19

1. Japanese
2. "Potential candidates should be proficient in one of two fields. The first being xxxx. The second being yyyy."
3. Wrong connection, extra rule? "The Bachelor of Forensic Science, like any empirical science, is based on ... ."

= December 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 20

1. Put a mockers on it

= December 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 21

1. Minimal-maximal condition
2. What does this phrase mean?
3. Name for someone who speaks a foreign language but does not write it

= December 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 22

1. Mitsudomoe
2. "造字"
3. Headlines
4. How many Danish speakers in each state

= December 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 23

1. Romanian language help sought

= December 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 24

1. German first edition

= December 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 25

1. That's not a word
2. The turtle crawls. The person walks (i.e. faster than crawling). The ant runs (i.e. faster than walking). The airplane flies (i.e. faster than running).
3. Suppletion to express fractions
4. Language Development

= December 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 26

1. to and before

= December 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 28

1. Wild boar in Latin
2. Liveability
3. Bulgarian (Krisia)

= December 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 29

1. Russian place name meaning
2. Referring to art works by the artist's name

= December 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 30

1. Jamais mon amour
2. AmE in the UK, or BrE in the US: error?

= December 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 31

1. हमैं अतीत को भूल जाना हैं और आगे की ओर देखना चाहिए
2. Pho questions