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July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 2

1. Arabic question: What is "Schools in Detroit" in Arabic and Polish?
2. Where/what is your waist?
3. What's the grammatical form: "You hate no-one, do you?", or "You hate no-one, don't you?"

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 3

1. "Man up" not "gender neutral" - what is current best exact equivalent in English usage
2. She's an alumni

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 4

1. What is "School districts in Michigan" in Arabic?
2. Pronunciation of Teklehaimanot and Qhubeka

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 5

1. inverted ‘Viva’ sign (Italian)
2. Greek language

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 6

1. What's the longest Russian word that's pronouncable if you pretend it's English letters?
2. Borscht terminology in Yiddish
3. Getting laid vs. getting laid off

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 7

1. What is the Arabic transcription?
2. Is "trivia" singular or plural?
3. Yiddish language

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 8

1. Arabic commons category label requests related to Detroit, New York City, and Philadelphia
2. Title "Ms.": translations

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 10

1. Facetious
2. Pronounce ur ear ir

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 11

1. date and record of a cross
2. Odd gemination (dagesh hazaq) in a verse occurring numerous times in the Hebrew text of the Pentateuch?
3. what is that nameless feeling of a scene

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 12

1. What ethnic group is the name "Ali Ag Wadossene" from?
2. Myths about the invention of a skill
3. Translation of Latin Magna Carta book title
4. Are there (healthy adult) people who speak no language at a native or near-native level?

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 13

1. جنيفر (pronunciation of Arabic version of name Jennifer)
2. Strengths and weaknesses

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 14

1. Is this a grammatical mistake?
2. Putting the preposition before the verb
3. mother of two
4. I'm looking for a website

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 15

1. boxy plan
2. Objections: what do you do with them?
3. Original Russian for Bakunin's phrase: When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ?
4. Footballer names
5. In the Czech and Slovak languages, how common are and have been the terms "Česko" and "Slovensko" as opposed to "Česká republika" and "Slovenská republika"?
6. Juxtaposed homographs

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 16

1. German saints

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 17

1. Spratly Islands in Japanese

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 18

1. Foot fetishism or podophilia in different languages
2. Cell camera verb
3. Transliterating Chinese sounds with the letter x
4. What does the attributive modify here?
5. What is a gallon jug
6. Whether vs. If

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 19

1. a warm muskmelon shade
2. flutter
3. Mystery character
4. Iranian & Middle East Sprachbund

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 20

1. Questions on the Ancient Egyptian language and the proto-Nostratic language theory

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 21

1. Etymology of Midwestern United States
2. Words ending in -cund
3. The voiced alveolar raised non-sonorant trill (Czech ř)

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 22

1. Looking for a word or phrase
2. Transfixation elsewhere than in Afro-Asiatic?

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 23

1. Shirt58's starter for 10
2. Amiga

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 24

1. Einherjar
2. Can someone help me edit the following paragraphs to improve readability, grammar, and flow
3. I hope to God vs. Ojalá que

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 25

1. More mystery Chinese characters (and a dash of Tibetan)
2. Squirt
3. Origin of "pray the gay away"

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 27

1. Missing the bark for the tree
2. Aboriginal name of Tasmania
3. Meaning of "scenario" in the context of hypothetical prehistorical events
4. "Our thoughts remain with family and friends of the deceased"
5. "e" and "ä" in German

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 28

1. Opposite of irony

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 29

1. Antonym (etc.) of "backlog"
2. Annexure- for building?
3. Negation
4. Adjectival form of "lacking imagination"
5. Bless, blessed
6. Syntax: not...either
7. big-bigger, vs. good-"gooder"

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 30

1. What is it called when books or movies are written like this: "Movie, The"
2. Bocardo Prison
3. "ee" and "oo"
4. How does one get an official translation of official documents?

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 July 31

1. etymology of Quidlivun
2. Quotation From Asterix