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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 1

  1. British accent
  2. Hitoshi Doi
  3. Bora Bora
  4. "Providing that" vs. "Provided that". Is one of them more common?
  5. Negative energy

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 2

  1. WHO is the oldest AEthnia: Abissinia[Aetiopya] YUDAEUS, EGYPTIAN, helens[ greek] TRAKS, dacians, DOICH , DUCH,?

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 3

  1. Term in singular for SS personnel on a Nazi concentration camp staff
  2. Portal symptoms
  3. Japanese: Pronunciation of ～す
  4. the meaning of "blow me away"

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 4

  1. Christian name : "Spruille" ?
  2. to be blown up = shell shock ?
  3. Priced to Own

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 5

  1. French translation
  2. Jzn. (Dutch abbreviation)
  3. Tequila effect
  4. Heads of Agreement

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 6

  1. Pinyin "iong"

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 7

  1. Agreeance
  2. Origins of African-American first names
  3. French help: "Unknown control"
  4. 'Utot' related to 'toot'?

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 8

  1. Learning Yiddish
  2. English in Bollywood

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 9

  1. Massacre
  2. Chinese help

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 10

  1. The role of nouns
  2. He remarried to
  3. French R
  4. captions
  5. I need help in understanding these sentences.
  6. Sindhi and Gujarati language similarities

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 11

  1. Chinese names for places in North Korea?
  2. Question about punctuation (again)
  3. German sein in the past tense
  4. Spanish Speaking wikipedia check out a table for me...
  5. Prepositions

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 12

  1. Ejective consonants
  2. Italian help
  3. Grammar
  4. As knows him..?
  5. Civil Union in Spanish

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 13

  1. Seraiki Sindh Punjab pakistan districts
  2. Water Tankering
  3. Ramayana etymologies
  4. Grammar dispute

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 14

  1. Typographical device using bold and regular without whitespace.
  2. Name by which Venetians referred/refer to outsiders

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 15

  1. Horses; "up for claim"?
  2. νέφος - modern or ancient Greek?
  3. Norwegian
  4. Letter to a Dean (freedom fighter's discount)
  5. "of" superfluous or no?

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 16

  1. Always Fiddling -- translated into Latin
  2. Most correct way to say 'Latin is dead' in latin?
  3. German
  4. Comparative in English
  5. Names of planets

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 17

  1. Need help in translating this French sentence
  2. What is the meaning implied in the name of 2011 British film "Retreat"?
  3. Greek etymology entanglements: poppies and death
  4. Article

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 18

  1. lonely person
  2. Collective name for kangaroos
  3. Sculpture at the wall of temples

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 19

  1. Latin motto or slogan for a radio operator
  2. Proverbs 1 V 4 King James
  3. Latin pronunciation

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 20

  1. Latin translation
  2. What appears to be strange English
  3. Foperies or ſoperies
  4. Open Syllables

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 21

  1. translat paragraph
  2. Learning a sign language or an oral language - which is easier?
  3. Latin translation, please

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 22

  1. Han Seung-yeon
  2. Gathering Blue
  3. Name of Burma in Burmese
  4. "dressed better than the street"

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 23

  1. Back on "Christian name : Spruille" , & thanks
  2. "Arbeiterklasse" vs. "working class"
  3. 'Homogeneous' or 'homogenous'?
  4. Tsigainer by Itzik Manger
  5. “Von ARD bis ZDF”

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 24

  1. Sunday függler ?

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 25

  1. Grammarians wanted - but only with a poetic sense of humour.
  2. Unvoiced initial S in German

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 26

  1. Is "welfare" aspirational or non-aspirational in your country?
  2. Book of Mormon Conlang
  3. “Sonn-”

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 27

  1. tiny Chinese characters
  2. Connectors in English Grammar (discourse markers?)
  3. interpreting German translation

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 28

  1. "Equatorial Guinea" in Fang language
  2. Semper avarus eget
  3. Stimme des Stoßbrigadlers
  4. "Study of Indians"

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 29

  1. Kyrgyzstan pronunciation
  2. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée
  3. Adjectival form of "species"
  4. Dying a happy death, etc
  5. Phonology
  6. Language poster
  7. Ariel Rebel

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 30

  1. lay/laid
  2. Sentence from an English test
  3. etymology of "come with"
  4. Language Log question: (sharks & new yorkers)
  5. Rhymes with "maybe"
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