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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 1

1. Latin translation requested
2. Entertention?
3. Pronunciation of surnames
4. IPA symbols for generic sound classes
5. Correct grammar
6. "pre-dumptial"
7. A Japanese translation.
8. Dictionaries and language change

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 2

1. Thair leirit he tonis proportionat
2. Potato/Potaato?
3. English Grammar: -
4. Phrasing
5. Noun form of cretinous
6. Klick

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 3

1. Antonyms of "virgin"?
2. "to" or "for"?
3. Identifying the passive agent in ‘precede’ and ‘succeed’
4. Schtroumpf

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 4

1. Of a [period]
2. Emphasis
3. Mac/Mc surname questions
4. Plural vs. singular possession
5. Tea, some tea and a tea
6. Column
7. simper

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 5

1. Good Korean Language Textbook/Website
2. Email Etiquette - replying to an individual AND a group
3. Linguistic flags
4. Chump
5. Failure cognate
6. Anonymous famous writers like Salinger and Pynchon
7. The silent majority
8. The rate of Language change

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 6

1. A Polish toast
2. Mynedfa derivation
3. Spatial and spacial
4. religious texts
5. Spanish question
6. need a 14 letter word with E A N A D N H T O I D M U I

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 7

1. Personal names in poorly attested languages
2. Help with rewriting this
3. Italian in Assassin's Creed 2
4. Kau
5. Combinations of sounds that are hard to pronounce
6. Hear Samples of Spoken Languages Online

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 8

1. Footnotes 56
2. Corollary to the Spanish question
3. The name of a door
4. nl:wiki problem
5. Nihongo translation please -.-;
6. Question About Facemarks/Emoticons
7. Knighting sword

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 9

1. Which is the subject?
2. Meaning of "so funny"
3. Eytmology
4. Longest English word with letters in alphabetical order
5. Hebrew
6. Pre-planned
7. Czech help;
8. Numbers 1 to 10 in Proto-Afroasiatic language?
9. Rusyn? Ukrainian?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 10

1. Antique/Antiques
2. Over-punctuation
3. peanut allergy sufferers in asia language help
4. Rendering of an Hebrew word in English letters

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 11

1. Reinforcing existing prejudices
2. "Piange ... Il Telefono" (Italian song)

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 12

1. Definition of OP
2. Temperature subjective feel
3. Is "accusee" acceptable?
4. Michaelhouse
5. M/M: Lettering format
6. What's this sentence construction?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 13

1. Application
2. Semivowel alternations
3. Portray or depict?
4. "re" case
5. Pronounciation rule?
6. Arabic Translation
7. Are ships feminine in American as they are in English ? And why ?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 14

1. Numbers in Hindi
2. "house" as a building and the family too
3. latín hispánico
4. Fear liath
5. He came home to find a friend and his girlfriend using his bed
6. Equi-"height"?
7. Japanese IME on Vista

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 15

1. Spanish subjunctive tense
2. THE WORD CELTIC
3. How is this persons name spelled?
4. Spelled or spelt?
5. Antithetical opposites
6. speech act theory; perlocutionary act

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 16

1. Please explain this simile
2. Dutch help

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 17

1. Question/answer
2. True or false?
3. "the well"
4. The omissio of "to"
5. English grammar
6. Repetitions?
7. Mac or Mack

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 18

1. Bitch
2. Motley
3. Invitation card
4. ways to refer to use of sign languages in English
5. Subordinate clause, or complete sentence
6. 'Must not' in past tense?
7. "up to the age of", or "until"?
8. Finnish: Original Book Titles
9. Texting
10. Mutual intelligibility of North American dialects of French
11. В in Russian
12. Lurch in Brazil

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 19

1. Sigismund('s) Bell
2. Analogy of Did you take train to school and eat mash potatoes for lunch
3. Understanding Japanese
4. Definite article prefacing proper nouns (specifically road names)
5. Maltese letters “Ċ” and “Ġ”

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 20

1. "Gaffe"
2. What Is "his pipe"?
3. Crossword
4. Mental pejorative
5. "Do no evil" vs. "Don't do evil"
6. is
7. "Control" mistranslated from French?
8. Wikipedia article in latin

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 21

1. When and how did discriptive surnames become permanent surnames??
2. What is the word used to describe the motion of large groups of fish or birds or other animals?
3. Unified English spelling and English verbs ending in "c"
4. Crossword clues..
5. Help getting phonetic characters
6. Latin check
7. an injust unjustice

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 22

1. "not to be reckoned with" - correct usage?

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 23

1. a Ship is a she? or a it?
2. Tejas, en español
3. Translation, please

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 24

1. "ff" at the start of names
2. Which sentence is correct?
3. different words for single meaning
4. Usage of "enough"
5. does anyone here speak Xhosa?
6. Italian pronunciation
7. J.K. Rowling and the use of 'Muggle'
8. Name for coins and notes

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 25

1. Same difference
2. Whirling dervish

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 26

1. Weird verb that can't be done but is only done
2. I like pie?
3. Translation from German
4. Irish blog title
5. On people and persons
6. On First Ladies
7. Translation of Chinese three-course meal

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 27

1. What's The Eyt Of "nanna"?
2. igi 3 is true ?
3. Cryptic crossword help required
4. Harping on
5. 'Why' questions
6. Use of “She”
7. Morgue
8. English words with several "th"s

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 28

1. Math
2. User Essays on Hebrew?
3. Tell me how I am speaking - 1 minute
4. Hyphens in compounds with units
5. Common misspellings (eg. than/then, you're/your)
6. "I like them tall girls" grammar

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 29

1. Mardi Gras
2. Surname - Sherliker
3. Optional commas before conjunctions

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 30

1. Billy
2. Game to make as many words as possible from a larger word

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 31

1. Turkish Alphabet Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac
2. "Mine was not an education of love, but of fear"
3. Shroff
4. grammar content
5. Angel hierarchy words
6. Uh-oh, Hunh, Hmmm, etc
7. Latin: "Odisse mortalis"