Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2014

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= June 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 1

1. Why are bananas yellow?
2. terms of endearment Lithuanian

= June 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 2

1. funny military name
2. Pronunciation of "almond"

= June 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 3

1. Does "all but X" have two opposite meanings?
2. Chinese text on map
3. Punctuation

= June 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 4

1. pentasyllabic
2. Word for legal ambiguity
3. A word for "(being) as politically incorrect as possible"?

= June 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 5

1. Thousand Families Poetry
2. Forming a cross-person genitive.

= June 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 6

1. Spanish translation requested
2. God Love
3. Gender

= June 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 7

1. Japanese fire extinguisher image question: transcription and translation
2. An easy one
3. How would you say "intriguing / interesting question", in one word?
4. What is the correct term?
5. Evolution of language

= June 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 8

1. Iconic but canonical?
2. unicode ttf font with zhuyin or pinyin

= June 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 9

1. Kahanamoku
2. Difference between ɻ and ɹ

= June 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 10

1. Obligate carnivores
2. French -> English translation requested
3. universal human language
4. the poetry of Chaos

= June 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 11

1. Pronunciation of 'protocol'
2. Simple past vs. present perfect in a business email
3. Article or no article?

= June 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 12

1. 人間宣言 (Language used in Humanity Declaration)

= June 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 13

1. writing systems
2. Usage of "cloister" for monastic buildings that may not have a cloister?

= June 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 14

1. Subject-object-verb construction
2. Translation request: "reciting the Catholic scriptures" in Chinese
3. Biology
4. Spanish acronyms
5. Is the following sentence acceptable to the native speakers of English?
6. Latin caption (translation needed)
7. Is there male equivalent of "mumsy"?

= June 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 15

1. Sued for $1m
2. What is the correct form: "From where?", or: "Where from?"
3. Inconsistency (?) at vowel
4. primigravida and primipara
5. How did [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gabenell/2658138172/ this Engrish mistranslation] come to be?

= June 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 16

1. Gerund +ing in lists
2. Correct usage of " effect" and "affect"
3. He married her. He married them.
4. What is the best way to describe the many Chinese dialects?
5. Word for spring flower scentr

= June 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 17

1. Opposite of tonogenesis?
2. Request for transcription of Urdu and Hindi
3. Article writing

= June 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 18

1. Is "northeast" a word?
2. surfer rosa

= June 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 19

1. ‘someone or something’
2. [ɹ] and [ɻ]
3. Everybody and nobody

= June 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 20

1. Does grammar change when a word in brackets is added?
2. valedictions
3. Tag question
4. Nickelodeon network's highest rated show

= June 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 21

1. Life goes on, bra

= June 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 22

1. the meaning of "warren"
2. proud-chested bookcases
3. Frying in human fat
4. South by Southwest
5. Excessive pride in one's culture

= June 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 23

1. Word for an opening on the door of a speakeasy

= June 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 25

1. Czech translation help requested
2. Japanese to English Translation, 1Q84
3. How do you correctly spell "cayotee" (i.e. a kind of jackal or hyena)?

= June 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 26

1. Need help thinking up a name for a fictional disorder

= June 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 27

1. superscripts in abbreviations
2. Luxembourgish
3. Playing an instrument

= June 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 28

1. denatus commentum terenti
2. Valid physical object itself
3. Vespers in the morning in the Lutheran church?
4. Cipher or language?

= June 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 29

1. An old technology for animal control
2. Typo gunman vs. gunmen in Annalena Tonelli
3. Etymology of ‘Wolfenstein’
4. Rastrum or rastral?

= June 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 June 30

1. Irregular words — what are they made of?
2. the meaning of Hollywoodism