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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 1

1. Pronunciation for "Ehrie"
2. Hindi/Urdu in Roman Script in Media and Music
3. Density of verbal communication

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 2

1. Word use prerogative
2. Russian word
3. Los Angeles
4. Etymology: is "urban" from Ur?
5. super, hyper and ultra
6. Pronunciation of döner kebab in Turkish

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 3

1. Aboriginal language
2. 'Artists'
3. what is correct pronunciation of St. Donat's?
4. The best way to use Tengwar in English

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 4

1. Comma placement
2. Network S.P.A
3. Stars
4. Devaluation of "snub"
5. A bit like Tom Brown in the Reign of William IV
6. French mot du jour services?
7. IPA for "L" in Church Slavonic/Russian
8. Native American Greetings
9. alternate definition for asynchronous learning

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 5

1. Etymology of Leir
2. And Then There Were None
3. Hatmep
4. English AO words
5. Metroad
6. Stress in single-syllable words

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 6

1. Latin "re-"
2. Do you Brits say "emphasise"?
3. Colon and dash
4. Please help me translating this "diplomatic English" into layman's terms. Thanks.

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 7

1. verbs used as nouns
2. logical consequences
3. How can i add new language?
4. English to Spanish
5. The word "segregation"
6. Hebrew Translation
7. English word stress (compared with Greek and Latin)
8. Standing on the shoulders of giants - Latin

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 8

1. Quicken?
2. 3 types of ironys
3. Asking about Spanish homework

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 9

1. Chinese-English transliteration: Jiang Jieshi and the Qing Dynasty
2. "Brinjal" and "jackal"
3. Adjectival Form
4. self-determinate, as a verb?
5. Ukrainian translation

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 10

1. Aqua
2. Smash the Kaiser
3. Ukrainian/Russian names
4. Sport vs sportS in American English

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 11

1. English grammar question
2. "Failure to progress is to regress"
3. Rhyming free verse

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 12

1. Glass balls with fake snow stuff inside
2. Meaning
3. European Triple Crown
4. Etymology of "fisherman"
5. English literature
6. JFC
7. Hugo Grotius latin quote about church history
8. Mathieu Bastareaud
9. Do countries have gender?

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 13

1. Russian translation please?
2. Neighborhood hole
3. OED help, please?
4. Grammar & punctuation
5. Nepotism
6. Where do I start with Elizabethan English?
7. Motto for being couraged
8. Phrases & expressions in English

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 14

1. Old English
2. Turks

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 15

1. Demonyms
2. "A dank"
3. bangla-english translator
4. Spat response
5. three strange foreign language requests
6. Whoever vs. whomever
7. Word meaning "line in a play"

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 16

1. Quick translation question
2. A greek nose for the future
3. Strait the gate
4. Use of the word 'liberal' in America

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 17

1. place name and family name
2. translation
3. what is the official term for
4. i do not find these words in my dictionnary, gulp > help
5. Chinese translation...

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 18

1. Sai Ong lost a horse ... (done)
2. Isn't this an oxymoron?
3. Virgin
4. The colour bronze - translation to Latin
5. Spelling of a word the news media people use about terrorists returning to fight.
6. watch someone give or giving
7. Is "Alight here" plain English?
8. Which is it?
9. Portuguese vowel letters with tilde
10. Using us vs. we

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 19

1. "The statute of limitations has expired"
2. My hovercraft is full of eels

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 20

1. What is this sound?
2. Picture
3. onomatopoeia for fart
4. Meine Ehre heißt Treue
5. Portuguese words

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 21

1. Welsh
2. Buryat and Mongolian (Khalka)
3. Mann von Geist und sogar poetischen Geist
4. Dog biscuits

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 22

1. strange use of quid pro quo
2. Repluralisation of initialisms, not to mention fried chicken
3. "Mexico City" in various languages
4. hip hip hurra
5. Verbs
6. Looking for a 1997 definition of "Font" as "a specific member of a type family."

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 23

1. Goofy foot
2. common imageries/metaphors for
3. Thai (?) translation request
4. Dubious usage of (English) word
5. Use of stock phrases by the media
6. Etymology of Forever 21
7. Word for something
8. Possessive apostrophe in a resume
9. Some Italian
10. french

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 24

1. Greek Terminology
2. Vedda language
3. "A Future Fair for All"
4. Cangjie decomposition
5. dash, hyphen or space?`
6. Is there a word for an admiral's hat?

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 25

1. indulgent
2. harbour-bar
3. Standard american english
4. Why do women say girlfriend?
5. Mosophiles
6. Schmazi ?

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 26

1. Scottish_Café
2. Ossolineum
3. Edit Summary Abbreviation
4. Tonal language with guttural sounds?
5. "Sans"
6. archived
7. What does this mean?
8. German Streik and Streit
9. context is an indespensible deternimant of meaning in a text, justify this against cognitive and referential interpretation
10. Empty Set
11. Question about Death Comes as The End
12. Main diff
13. Demonyms
14. "Capitalization"

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 27

1. Mother Hubbard dress
2. German vocabulary in Quantum Physics
3. How many words does French have?
4. Shocked, dumbfounded, perplexed, stupified, open-mouthed, "huh?"
5. Car or automobile
6. Pee or Wee
7. Some Italian Part 2
8. Terminology
9. What's a tassie?

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 28

1. English equivalent for the German expression "Sympathieträger"
2. English into IPA transcription?
3. English to Latin
4. affect/effect
5. black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta
6. Zircons
7. Adalbert of Prague