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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 1

  1. Silent w in wh- words
  2. Extended homonyms
  3. Has the Singular Possesive Pronoun Gone the Way of the Dinosaur?
  4. Arabic Dialect Comparison

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 2

  1. Borax
  2. "How do you call yourself ?"
  3. Likelyhood that old civilizations pronounced words the way we pronounced them?
  4. Arabic الكعبة kaʕbah, English cube

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 3

  1. Sas Thelimatos tou Emon - seeking translation.
  2. At and in
  3. Adding dates to people with titles
  4. English exam: Help!!!
  5. Basic Japanese Counting

July 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 4

  1. Swear word ? in unknown language
  2. Places in 1920 Schleswig / Slesvig
  3. Quarterfinal vs Quarter-Final vs Quarter Final
  4. Translation from japanese
  5. Languages with different words for inclusive/exclusive we/our
  6. List of verbs used copulatively in English?
  7. Would someone be willing to proofread a CV/application letter?

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 5

  1. Shipdham
  2. Nothing
  3. Etymological connection between Hebrew "kollel" and English "college"
  4. the fauna equivalent of 'anthology'?
  5. the changing nature of Fanny

July 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 6

  1. "Self checkout machine" in Spanish
  2. if a noise makes a sound, what does a color make?

July 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 7

  1. Czech Proverb
  2. Translating jobs...?
  3. Knockabout

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 8

  1. p. 65 or p.65 ?
  2. Knutsson in all Scandinavian languages
  3. Verbs that take dative (in)direct objects

July 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 9

  1. Turkish baharat includes mint as the major ingredient.
  2. Old Norse
  3. Google Translate......
  4. Pop vs. soda
  5. What does alle mean?
  6. The buck's gotta stop somewhere.
  7. Kanbun readers

July 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 10

  1. can jungle also mean rainforest?
  2. How did space become masculine?
  3. x by y by z
  4. Masscre is not supposed to be capitalized?
  5. Antonym of goldbricker
  6. How come?

July 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 11

  1. Milkmaid figure
  2. naming custom of Salva Kiir Mayardit?
  3. Sum = "An arithmetical problem to be solved", not just adding up
  4. English to Korean sentence translation requests
  5. ( CHN ) meaning of Hanzi on this farmhouse beam?

July 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 12

  1. Michael Fassbender's German dialogues in X-Men : First Class
  2. "For toffee"

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 13

  1. Locations with the name -sex
  2. Changing words from English to English
  3. Translating historical fiction into French - tu/vous
  4. Spanish cities ending in -ona

July 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 14

  1. pronunciation of -tion ending
  2. Voiceover for Game - Translation Request (German)
  3. Muhammad's cat
  4. Topf <-?-> Pot

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 15

  1. --ope, etc.
  2. Complexity of Japanese grammar
  3. CHN (Area west of Mississippi)
  4. TRANSHIPPED - Meaning
  5. Difference between accuracy, precision and resolution.

July 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 16

  1. Ditched, crashlanded, forced to land
  2. Français
  3. 'Folk psychology'
  4. Easy French translation
  5. Hyphenation of French double-barrelled given names
  6. Rendering of transliterated Hebrew word

July 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 17

  1. “San ling sheng jiang ji”
  2. Literal translation versus poetic translation
  3. “Spicken macht Faß”
  4. Latin meaning and explanation

July 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 18

  1. Miscellaneous vocabulary questions (French and German)
  2. How to start my study for Spanish language?
  3. Review of English language

July 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 19

  1. I'm like how come?
  2. Obligatory sex-based gender marking for animals
  3. harvesting equipment history
  4. article 5 of Statute of ICJ
  5. Esperanto

July 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 20

  1. Physical Anatomy
  2. In laws
  3. Moose

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 21

  1. Couple
  2. Functionality
  3. Disagreement about formatting of aircraft type designations.
  4. Shrug

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 22

  1. Killers - Spree vs. Mass
  2. Help me find the phrase
  3. Origin of Kelsey's nuts
  4. JA (Location of headquarters)
  5. "Circle jerk" synonym
  6. Looking for a word for a finger punch
  7. A word that is always adjacent to one particular other word

July 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 23

  1. How would one say "Those who cannot live, serve" in Latin?
  2. "i don't need no education"
  3. Better term for "hierarchical precedence level consistency" ?
  4. Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 24

  1. Request translation from Polish to English, of Wikipedia page.
  2. How do you spell the names of the letters of the English alphabet?

July 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 25

  1. Plural of names
  2. Bratskellar
  3. Short Korean translation
  4. SP: "X by Y"
  5. Possibly Mike North's Accent
  6. Friends with
  7. American grandfather

July 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 26

  1. Mischieve
  2. Dang furriners; why caint they speke Merican?
  3. Is this sentence correct?
  4. Bold
  5. Cheveux vs Chevelure

July 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 27

  1. How old is the arabic language?
  2. When did ideas stop having capital letters?
  3. Nietzsche Letter in German
  4. Conocer-Saber distinction in Spanish
  5. Haben/sein distinction in German

July 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 28

  1. "Legal"
  2. (ZH) Eslite Bookstore headquarters?

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 29

  1. What is this guy's accent?
  2. Singlish & American Standard English
  3. Wiligut Font
  4. Hebrew

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 30

  1. Tahitians
  2. 'Vitipetia'
  3. Phrasing
  4. Pre-heat the oven
  5. One

July 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 July 31

  1. Dick
  2. to sail is everything
  3. Capital letters
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