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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 1

1. Pronounciation
2. Cognate
3. Looking for a word
4. Vietnamese help
5. Pronunciation of Poston (Japanese American internment camp)
6. Mail Administrator's grasp of English, or mine?
7. discovery of biblical greek
8. addressing and closing a letter to a British ambassador in another country?
9. Japanese sounds

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 2

1. French word for Danish (food)
2. Sixties Slang
3. Help me correct this phrases please.
4. Name for self-multilation

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 3

1. counter-clerks
2. latin word order for the perfect passive
3. What do these mean?

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 4

1. is there an adjective that means 'kookaburralike'?
2. Hebrew help
3. Possessive for proper noun ending in "s"
4. Verb tense

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 5

1. Kanji variants
2. "Not to be mistaken as..."
3. Chinese expression
4. Podestà
5. Origin of the word "Cover"
6. When did the "thou", "thy" begin diseppearing?
7. Chinese-English chapter translation
8. Azcrostic?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 6

1. Chinese negation of 吃
2. Ending sentence with ellipses in a quotation
3. I would have thought
4. Anti-shadow?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 7

1. Spanish leismo
2. Gaelic translation
3. Font on part of US dollar
4. Words from comics and cartoons.
5. Why not just one language?
6. Dam/Damn

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 8

1. Development of German Sibilants
2. "Linguistic memory"?
3. Litfaßsäule
4. How long is a moment?
5. use of commas
6. Can I victimise Margaret Thatcher?

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 9

1. Identification of Language in a Song
2. Nihongo translation please... ^_^
3. -l (at the end of a word) in English, Spanish and Catalan
4. who or whom
5. There are any constructed language like math?
6. Ham and eggs in old American movies
7. Used to / use to
8. Off or from

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 10

1. Subject
2. Huckabee etymology
3. Etymological dictionary
4. "a ma vie de coeur entier"
5. Killing
6. Personal pronouns used for organisations
7. Japanese: pronunciation of を and お
8. How did synthetic/polysynthetic/agglutinative languages originate in the first place?
9. Plural of paterfamilias
10. take out procession

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 11

1. Nihongo translation again! (Sorry :3)
2. What was the Book called, and who wrote it ?
3. Czech “ř”
4. Liu Xiaobo ITN
5. Ram Khamhaeng or Ramkhamhaeng?
6. Someone – They
7. Grammar

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 12

1. Plural of zero
2. How to pronounce...
3. 'Inside of'
4. Variety-speak

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 13

1. You had better/best read this question
2. Punctuation
3. Silver Hell
4. Past tense of "disposition"
5. from French / Check-language

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 14

1. tin can despots, and tin can regimes
2. "Semper Eadem"?
3. Rule of inflection of English adjectives derived from participles.
4. Japanese numbers
5. Is mad offensive?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 15

1. Words coined by children
2. Wikileaks U.S. Embassy "Cables"
3. Intonation
4. Nasal "yes" by African-Americans
5. Apprehension
6. Old English word definition

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 16

1. Help with Japanese needed - image description
2. Spanish translation help
3. Hell's Kitchen
4. Unclear Hanzi on a 19th century Chinese hell scroll
5. Passé simple

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 17

1. Ahorita
2. A question for Sanskrit afficionados
3. Improving my English - simple question, should i use 'shot in', 'broke in' or something else ?
4. French grammar question
5. Eponymous adjectives, English monarchy
6. Quick Portuguese translation for a Wikipedia article

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 18

1. Ram Khamhaeng or Ramkhamhaeng?
2. English Malayalam dictionary software
3. Comparisons of importance
4. 死ンドラー

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 19

1. The Tsars spoke French?
2. Please could someone check these changes to the Sanskrit
3. Usage of the word shtick

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 20

1. The English Malayalam dictionary software - Free down load

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 21

1. Japanese video game cut scene
2. I want to be....
3. Words for...
4. Croatian vs. Polish
5. British collective nouns

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 22

1. Latin translation
2. German for airport
3. How to formulate this seemingly easy, yet for me not easy sentence?
4. Anti-money laundering
5. Let's see if we can't get to the bottom of redundant negatives

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 23

1. Long time no see, 好久不见
2. Where could I evaluate my English vocabulary on a Website ?
3. ...too or ..., too

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 24

1. Time Travel - How far back could I go before I had serious problems communicating?
2. Racism
3. Meaning of verb "rescató"

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 25

1. Pinyin for 方滨兴?

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 26

1. Spanish for (same-sex) partner
2. French translation
3. Wrong end of the stick - origin?
4. hard-edged
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 27

1. Irish pronunciation of the letter "A"
2. Latin
3. Make out
4. Chinese questions
5. dispense

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 28

1. Russian lettering
2. Slang from a BBC television show
3. What language is that? BEWARE POSSIBLE MALWARE LINK
4. near and hear

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 29

1. Japanese video game screenshot
2. Russian translation
3. Pedagogs and Teachers
4. Latin text on Spinoza's tomb
5. "open source license" or "open-source license"?
6. "A haircut you can set your watch to"
7. which language is this
8. Tamil language translation
9. Wossname, narmean?
10. Picking up Latin again
11. "From the get-go"
12. downloading books
13. Writing Discovered or Invented
14. correct form

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 30

1. French direct objects
2. French question!
3. "Nothing happen unless first a dream"

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 December 31

1. Characters and caricatures
2. Latin pronunciation
3. French Verb