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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 1

  1. Blood
  2. Breendonk vs. Breendonck
  3. Two questions about German pronouns
  4. The Outsiders
  5. Japanese translation
  6. Random German question
  7. Languages with only one preposition
  8. German railway term

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 2

  1. A few things I want to know how to say in chinese.
  2. Bathroom / Restroom
  3. Alemannic Kraut
  4. Egg-ague merger
  5. brain tweezer
  6. Origins of the last name Boxerbaum
  7. "Joe the Plumber"-type names
  8. Linguistics Careers
  9. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 2#|]]
  10. Spanish: Difference between hambre & hambruna.
  11. Quotations and punctuation

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 3

  1. What is a "killing oak"?
  2. Shoot 'em Up
  3. Latin paradigm populations
  4. Correct use of comma
  5. Name for a person who makes excessive spoken use of a particular word?
  6. -tal vs. -thal (ending for surnames and place names)
  7. Gay son
  8. Word choice
  9. what is this rhetorical tactic called?
  10. Literary Awards

March 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 4

  1. Hungarian references: 19th century electrical inventions by Jedlik
  2. Name origin for D'elormie
  3. Word for the animal vs. the word for the meat
  4. name for a concept
  5. Use of "only" in sentence structure
  6. An archaic culinary name for gull meat?

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 5

  1. spanish translation, ribbed condoms
  2. General foreign accent
  3. Japanese pronunciation
  4. Language proficiency displayed on one's person
  5. Russian dates
  6. Swedish song title
  7. Prepositions

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 6

  1. Latin: pecatoribus or peccatoribus?
  2. Thought-terminating clichés
  3. Dangling superlative on CNN
  4. Latin>English translation to verify, please
  5. Need quote attribution
  6. Spanish

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 7

  1. Synonym
  2. Typing Korean on Windows PC
  3. arabic word noor
  4. Horse sense
  5. Subject verb agreement

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 8

  1. Amanda Strang
  2. Communicating meaning with distant space aliens - no pictures allowed
  3. what does anbu mean in japanese
  4. Syntax highlighting in English?
  5. spanish translation
  6. pawing: Can a horse "paw" the ground?

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 9

  1. Accent and deafness
  2. Sentence diagrams
  3. Waqf registry
  4. Untangle a sentence from Kipling?
  5. Comma usage
  6. Meaning of "say"

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 10

  1. Preposition for address
  2. Question about Teacher's job
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 10#|]]
  4. Radix malorum est cupiditas
  5. Comma here and give me an answer

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 11

  1. Urdu, anyone?
  2. Archaic writing
  3. american people vs. American people vs. American People
  4. Capitilisation

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 12

  1. Double negative
  2. Question for a Latin speaker/writer
  3. Was/Were
  4. Further Russian questions

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 13

  1. Pronunciation
  2. Coptic/Greek Translation
  3. Origin of the word "Taxi"
  4. ASL
  5. Translation into balinese script
  6. portuguese psychoanalysis term: 'vida pulsional'
  7. How is the word "mobile" pronounced?

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 14

  1. eat one's head off?
  2. Welsh

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 15

  1. Elie Wiesel
  2. The numbers two and eleven as numerals in Chinese script
  3. Happy coincidence
  4. Reverse dictionary ?
  5. Word choice
  6. Prescription drugs
  7. Interrobangs and Spanish
  8. Turkish

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 16

  1. choom
  2. Gaoliang
  3. Hebrew: US official language
  4. Are these words German?
  5. Habermas and Anglo-Saxon

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 17

  1. Passover and Easter -- translations and etymologies
  2. Quote often misattributed to Dan Quayle
  3. German
  4. The Red Sea - Mistranslation

March 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 18

  1. Armada, marina
  2. Ambiguously Middle Eastern/Indian/South Asian name?
  3. What about ...
  4. Is the word still used
  5. I am natural
  6. Currency symbol

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 19

  1. Chinese translation request
  2. Restroom for disabled/handicapped/?
  3. Mishu

March 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 20

  1. Power Builder 6.5 and 8.0.4 Problem.
  2. Phonetic XML schema
  3. Two and two

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 21

  1. Fingers
  2. Medical college?
  3. Capitalisation in titles of works
  4. Reduplication kanji
  5. Translation French to Englush

March 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 22

  1. Numerals in Khmer
  2. Most ambiguous acronym
  3. Code-switching
  4. Collocation

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 23

  1. Dag Hammarskjold Pronunciation
  2. first mystery novel
  3. No beginning sentences with an arabic numeral
  4. learning a new launguage

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 24

  1. De-facto Chinese "dialect" language subcodes
  2. "I will/shall drown, no one shall/will save me"
  3. Wolves, dogs and foxes
  4. Are these good Chinese names for me?
  5. Another grammar question
  6. Pronunciation of names in Norse mythology in Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish
  7. Help identifying a French exclamation/interjection
  8. reason ("God")
  9. Emphasis, exclamation points, etc.

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 25

  1. macdonalds advertising in indian languages in san jose, california
  2. "There's" followed by a plural word

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 26

  1. Mistaken common knowledge
  2. William
  3. Plural
  4. Define prototheory
  5. Dr. Masayoshi = Masayoshi Arai, Mayor of Yaotsu?
  6. Japanese funeral help
  7. Playing cards together

March 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 27

  1. Euphemisms
  2. Translation of the word "Nachtschleife"

March 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 28

  1. Revolver in a person's sleeve
  2. Faspa

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 29

  1. This needs polishing

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 30

  1. What modifiers modify
  2. Two questions from above
  3. Translation into German
  4. word pronunciation

March 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 31

  1. Hebrew grammar/translation help please
  2. For good or bad?
  3. "Settle in"
  4. Phesant = peasant?
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