Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2017

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 1

1. Official list of official languages
2. Spanish surname confirmation
3. Yellow Sapphire
4. What is a cercle?

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 2

1. Special meaning of "league"

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 3

1. English grammar question
2. Literature: English/from England

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 4

1. what accent/style is this?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 5

1. Professional Door Opener and other jobs

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 8

1. mutual intelligibility of dutch and german
2. Script or alphabet
3. "four-wheels drive" vs "four-wheel drive".
4. Fall in love, fall pregnant
5. 'is a former restaurant' and 'awarded a star in 1998-2002'
6. Grammar issue: use of approximate vs. approximately

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 9

1. Name and position of a German woman on Birkenau camp staff
2. Latin word for "square"
3. On Stranger Tides
4. The exact transcription for "quarter inch"

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 10

1. Kazakh written in Arabic
2. English understanding problem

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 11

1. resynthesis of ordinal numbers

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 12

1. German turnips

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 13

1. Code words
2. Polish Heavy Metal References

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 14

1. Do you use italics or not?
2. Root 'hild' in modern German
3. alternate wording in Anne Frank diary

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 15

1. 'is a former restaurant' and 'awarded a star in 1998-2002'
2. Meaning of Spanish "birrodado"?
3. Is this verb singular or plural?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 18

1. Hebrew pronunciation
2. Meaning of "Auslander Bonzen raus"

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 20

1. Ambiguity in "everything is $1" joke
2. Chinese reader wanted

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 21

1. Latin help, school motto
2. Appropriate comma use and terminology disambiguation

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 22

1. Second person narratives

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 23

1. Placement of the adverb "not"

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 24

1. Vietnamese IPA phonetics
2. Spanish demonym for people from Wales and Gaels

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 25

1. 㞎㞎, 屎, 粪, dung, poop, feces, shit, excrement, doo-doo, poo-poo, manure
2. Translation Request - for article on French cartoonist

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 27

1. And also
2. Britons abroad
3. Yiddish abbreviations?
4. German to English translations

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 28

1. Foster homes, orphanages, poorhouses, workhouses, and almshouses
2. Judeo-Arabic payment orders
3. Being told that I speak with a Canadian accent

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 29

1. "Kicking the bucket" as an NPI
2. "he says he don't" / "he says he doesn't"

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 30

1. Phrasing in the case of restaurants that have ceased to exist
2. "Dating"

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 31

1. Figures
2. "Who was it done by?" VS. "By whom was it done?"