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= June 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 1

1. Complementary distribution of the allophones of /θ/
2. Infinite forms of "Dare" and "Need" as modal verbs.

= June 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 2

1. Where does the word aint originate from
2. Handwritten hiragana (Japanese)

= June 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 3

1. What does Como una flor que necesita el aqua Sin tu amor se marchita mi alma mean in Spanish?
2. Pitman shorthand
3. Lower case titles / upper case titles
4. Swedish Wikipedia / admin who speaks English
5. Turkish neologisms
6. "a part" vs. "part"
7. Etymology of two Japanese names?

= June 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 4

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Deity pronouns in Chinese
3. Isaiah 25:6
4. Yes, please
5. What does this Latin phrase mean?
6. Two side of the same coin?

= June 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 5

1. Crossword puzzle stumper
2. Japanese name "Hero"

= June 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 7

1. Indonesian help
2. Armenian help
3. Spellings with 3 pronunciations
4. 9 letter English word
5. What does this edit summary mean? Language Unknown
6. Happy Birthday in German
7. Can you refer to an inanimate entity as 'who'

= June 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 8

1. French: la "langue romane"?
2. Emigration
3. Indian pronunciation
4. [ʒ] in English

= June 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 9

1. Comma placement
2. Luxury yachts' original names?

= June 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 10

1. what language is this?
2. Jack (connector)
3. What is an imagefilm?
4. Italian
5. The pronunciation of "iron" in non-rhotic dialects
6. Regurgitate

= June 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 11

1. Anatole is not from Anatolia
2. Umlauts in Turkish
3. Sound description in sign languages

= June 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 12

1. Translation, bitte
2. English Words with Accents

= June 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 13

1. "Poor little" and "Big old"
2. Appeal to age? Argumentum ad...
3. Swedish/German translation question
4. Is there a word (or term) for "self-fortification-after-being-heavily-used"?

= June 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 14

1. Japanese translation request
2. X as a prefix
3. Hakka Chinese Romanization
4. x-j switch in Spanish-American places

= June 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 15

1. When did Proto-Indo-European split up into its different sub-branches?
2. For any two pairs of languages, how many commons speakers are there worldwide?
3. Smokey Stover comic image
4. "Ham"
5. Spanish Translation of an article
6. Hebrew: counterintuitive deleting order of niqqud

= June 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 16

1. Everybody Loves Reimund?
2. How do you spell "Manuchi"?
3. A different language?
4. Meaning "jumps"
5. National demonyms and politeness

= June 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 17

1. "jiggity-jog"
2. presti-jicus
3. Under multiple wings
4. 'etymology' or history of 'bat shit'
5. German "zug" (in all its meanings) in English
6. /r/ in Italian vs Spanish

= June 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 18

1. Russian
2. Tsi-zhu in Osage
3. salvationary?
4. 65'ers?

= June 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 19

1. Enforced redundancy

= June 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 20

1. Opposite of paedophile
2. Parrots
3. pronunciation of Arthurian names
4. Where Is The Evidence That Every Subsequent Language Learned Makes It Easier
5. Identifying unfamiliar languages by their leaving a "signature", e.g. characteristic consonant clusters, etc.
6. English in the future

= June 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 21

1. "Experience" vs. "experiences"
2. Old Church Slavonic
3. What is the word please?
4. The meaning of the Latin word "sed"

= June 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 22

1. How are you? Ca va? etc.
2. verbatim
3. Italiano
4. Swedish: "Vemska la leba"

= June 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 23

1. How is Ø written?
2. speaking foreign words in Swedish
3. Cockle' pills ? Stays ?
4. "methods of" vs "methods for"
5. Two sets of brackets coming together like this (blah)(blah blah)
6. Practical Drawl

= June 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 24

1. Term for a form of political dishonesty
2. Qui-hi
3. What do you call it when an instruction is phrased like a question? (and other questions)
4. I'd like some [real-world] vandalism translated
5. Claim in Antidisestablishmentarianism
6. Wagon Pars - speak 'iranian' ?

= June 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 25

1. Spoken language identification
2. Capitalization of "but"
3. Spanish terms - pronunciation

= June 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 26

1. Translate to Hawaiian
2. Good resource for learning the Queen's English (RP) accent?
3. Chinese reading help
4. Grammar structure
5. transitive uses of "dissemble"

= June 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 27

1. What does the Alaskan accent sound like
2. Trap basalt - etymology
3. vegetables
4. Unknown Korean words

= June 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 28

1. Chinese verbal particles and complements
2. Question about the word "HAVE" in Latin
3. Questions on meanings of some words from Mrs Amworth
4. Fussable Chasselais
5. Korean text

= June 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 29

1. Wikisource template in Korean
2. Rockefeller University motto
3. Different alphabets/scripts/writing systems
4. Distinct reflexive pronouns
5. "She" or "Her"?
6. Chart of suffix-based verb derivatives in English.

= June 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 June 30

1. German Warsteiner
2. Is this quote real?
3. More Korean help
4. Parkinson's disease
5. -ling