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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 1

  1. IPA transcriptions
  2. Summer Olympics
  3. Free dual language Spanish-English books

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 2

  1. Barbara Walters's accent
  2. Vocabulary
  3. Sports articles or Sport articles
  4. What is origin of web dialect Examples Puppehs (puppies) Haz (have/has) Teh (the)
  5. Abstract nouns

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 3

  1. Hoofed biped
  2. sentence construction
  3. Where does "broheem" come from?
  4. Use of "to be"

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 4

  1. More German questions
  2. 'Gestalt' as a verb in English
  3. Translation from English into Gaelic
  4. Term of endearment?
  5. The Commonest Words in the English Language
  6. Hash symbol as number
  7. Dutch Scrabble?
  8. IPA symbol - Portuguese
  9. What does 'ffridd hafren primula' mean in Welsh?
  10. Anyone able to use the Devanagari script or even better read the Nepali language?

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 5

  1. "Young at Heart"
  2. "I am" with past-perfect verbs
  3. Italian translation
  4. Speeded or sped

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 6

  1. Can't be arsed/assed
  2. Japanese
  3. What language is this?
  4. Help translating a motto into English
  5. Arabic names: ابن
  6. Hyphens and parsing of prefixes and suffixes
  7. "Br,"
  8. "Freund" and "Freundin"
  9. -Dialects in Spanish and English
  10. Name - proper transliteration
  11. Girls' names

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 7

  1. Italian translation needed
  2. cachi-
  3. Edo-era shogi rules
  4. Spanish accents
  5. Interesting usages
  6. Japanese

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 8

  1. mandarin aspiration
  2. Biblical quotation
  3. Consensuality?
  4. what's this say? Faroese translation
  5. Italian words for money: "denaro" or "soldi"
  6. "Lang may yir lum reek wi ither fowk's coal"
  7. siberian/north russian

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 9

  1. Is this wrong?
  2. Danish Letter
  3. Can anybody please translate Latin text?
  4. Are the Turkish Language and the Uyghur Language mutually intelligible?

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 10

  1. Serious question
  2. curly looking or curly-looking?
  3. Marathi Language its Origin and Age
  4. is japanese easy to learn if your chinese is good?
  5. mother
  6. Hyphen vs. dash
  7. Cover letter

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 11

  1. Was graduated

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 12

  1. Arabic Verbs
  2. One -> He
  3. Release from future liability
  4. Terminology
  5. Ist, IInd, IIIrd?
  6. Colon usage
  7. Latin translation please
  8. A question
  9. Russian translation
  10. or vs. nor

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 13

  1. Colloquial phrase
  2. issue of quantum
  3. Lover of phonetics
  4. Latin translation
  5. Pronunciation of Miljan Mrdaković
  6. English Grammar
  7. Persian translation
  8. name of an english tense
  9. what is the persian (farsi) word for philosopher?
  10. anglicization or simply typo?
  11. Japanese

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 14

  1. Comma after dash
  2. English language word.
  3. French or Spanish
  4. Estonian name
  5. Singing in English
  6. Verbs that are only transitive for one object

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 15

  1. Machines powered by putrilage
  2. Reversing order of words
  3. Smack verses slap - the same or a little different
  4. Word for those rhymes where you clap your hands and your partner's whie saying them?
  5. Automized
  6. Sports Fans

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 16

  1. Was/were
  2. A hard on(e)?
  3. Pronunciation of Achille Castiglioni
  4. things

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 17

  1. Equivalent term for female excitement
  2. language

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 18

  1. Manchu loanword in Mandarin Chinese
  2. Regarding reading comprehension.

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 19

  1. Names Meaning "Corrupted Innocence"
  2. military use of "actual"
  3. Hiccough
  4. Vulger Latin

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 20

  1. Almost-auto-antonyms?
  2. Letter frequencies in the Finnish language?
  3. Q
  4. Plurals of Abstract nouns
  5. The use of the term fiance
  6. translation from French to English
  7. Cows
  8. English grammar
  9. Spanish or Portuguese question

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 21

  1. Indonesian names
  2. English word that evokes a medieval doctor?
  3. A phrase in the The Da Vinci Code
  4. Libbie, Fudim
  5. Translation of "damnificadas"

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 22

  1. What is correct; Baseball parks or Baseball parks'?
  2. Japanese question
  3. French words

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 23

  1. Canine, vulpine, equine, etc.
  2. When did the word 'Uranus' start to become amusing?
  3. Phrase
  4. Nastia Liukin

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 24

  1. Southern American English
  2. Why are highways called that?
  3. Geometrie

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 25

  1. Horny
  2. ripcord
  3. Hottie
  4. ślůnsko
  5. Need somebody who speaks Arabic

August 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 26

  1. Japanese music venue website
  2. Notting Hill Carnival
  3. Null and void
  4. Please translate the following text from English to Latin
  5. information on a quote
  6. Fake or Fiction

August 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 27

  1. Searching for books
  2. El Hombre Gordo
  3. man in touch with his feminine side
  4. French to English genealogy translation

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 28

  1. Terms and condtions (as in business)--
  2. Whoever vs. whomever
  3. Pronouncing the name Alcide
  4. Translation of some Japanese text
  5. Poster Text
  6. French -- how bad is it to not use accents?
  7. Slovar

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 29

  1. English emphasis
  2. "Clown in libertà"
  3. Acronym request

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 30

  1. presidency/prime ministership
  2. The Douche Renaissance
  3. Swear words
  4. Tits
  5. japanese grammar

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 31

  1. Plurals
  2. Terms of endearment in Ireland
  3. a-...
  4. eyes are bigger than one's stomach
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