Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2010

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= October 1 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 5

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

= October 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 6

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

= October 7 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 10

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

= October 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 11

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

= October 12 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 17

1. Rake building
2. How many words?

= October 18 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 24

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

= October 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 25

1. Dem Deutschen Volke

= October 26 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

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 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 October 31

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