Edge Rewrite
restyle Source code View original
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

Jump to content

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2014

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<< Feb | Language desk | Apr >>
Welcome to the Wikipedia Language Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.


March 1

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 1

  1. Chinese/English help: File:TNA332toShanghai.ogg
  2. Do elders & children usually have different phonologies?
  3. Linguistic Stereotypes
  4. French help: finding French language articles on the International School of Paris

March 2

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 2

  1. St. George's, Grenada apostrophe
  2. Russian help
  3. Books about Wikipedia or encyclopedias in languages other than English or French

March 3

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 3

  1. Word choice
  2. Bold text
  3. Alphabetical order
  4. Why is it bad to ask God to damn things?
  5. Why are contractions pronounced from two syllables to one syllable?
  6. British colonial insertion of "r"s where they don't belong.
  7. Vietnamese phrase

March 1

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 1

  1. Chinese/English help: File:TNA332toShanghai.ogg
  2. Do elders & children usually have different phonologies?
  3. Linguistic Stereotypes
  4. French help: finding French language articles on the International School of Paris

March 2

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 2

  1. St. George's, Grenada apostrophe
  2. Russian help
  3. Books about Wikipedia or encyclopedias in languages other than English or French

March 3

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 3

  1. Word choice
  2. Bold text
  3. Alphabetical order
  4. Why is it bad to ask God to damn things?
  5. Why are contractions pronounced from two syllables to one syllable?
  6. British colonial insertion of "r"s where they don't belong.
  7. Vietnamese phrase

March 4

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 4

  1. Cuneiform in Wikipedia

March 5

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 5

  1. Need help with summary of Nepali references / establishment of notability
  2. Question about Japanese sources: How much do they talk about the Liceo Mexicano Japones? Are they independent of the school?
  3. Transcription and translation of Korean markings
  4. Etymology of Yiddish איידים (pron. aye-dim) - "son-in-law"

March 6

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 6

  1. What is fucken going on?
  2. future of media & media's future
  3. Suprematism
  4. UN and varieties of English
  5. Polecat

March 7

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 7

  1. website that compares the (Iranian and Slavic) languages
  2. Arabic dialects comparison website with audio sample
  3. does anyone really say pot-ah-to
  4. Writing correct English. Just some minor help.

March 8

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 8

  1. Japanese help: Kanji for Kouhei Asoh, pilot of Japan Airlines Flight 2
  2. Etymology of Bandurki, Rusyn for Potato
  3. feel a twinge in her nose
  4. Arabic help: Finding Arabic names of Dearborn city institutions and Dearborn Public Schools campuses
  5. Chinese characters and radicals

March 9

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 9

  1. bake/roast potatoes
  2. in irregular rhythm
  3. Japanese electronic device legends
  4. Chinese help with aviation technical terms
  5. 'Had become' -vs- 'became'
  6. cannot but/have to

March 10

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 10

  1. College Entrance Examination or College Entrance Examinations
  2. Lyudmyla Yosypenko - UK/RU news
  3. What to call characters in The Adventures of Little Carp
  4. bring down on

March 11

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 11

  1. Speech question
  2. Singular or plural?
  3. Noun–adjective order
  4. Have you been to/gone to & Fuiste (ir) /Fuiste (ser) coincidence, or language universal?

March 12

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 12

  1. a fit of unbearable coughing?
  2. Pergament paper
  3. Spanish help: Political controversy involving a Mexican school
  4. infinitive verbs
  5. For bilingual speakers

March 13

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 13

  1. Oh Dae-su (Hangul: 오대수)
  2. flourishing spring
  3. Japanese character identification
  4. Patently absurd

March 14

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 14

  1. The top of the hill was swept off
  2. German Translation Needed
  3. Plurals of Abbreviated Words
  4. Term for a noun that is both singular and plural

March 15

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 15

  1. A cuttle of days
  2. Japanese character recognition
  3. "straight" or "straightly"?

March 16

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 16

  1. The father turned the boy's shoulder around and talked to him.
  2. Italian and Spanish Similarities
  3. Japanese character identification - pre-war?
  4. The writer wrote the novel in/on/at Elm Street.

March 17

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 17

  1. Don't quote me on this, but I need help.
  2. Is a ghoul a good metaphor?
  3. American and British English, native and nonnative speakers
  4. Impel incorrectly listed as "Not a word" in wikipedia

March 18

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 18

  1. Japanese help: Japanese School of Sao Paulo
  2. leaving a large wet patch on it
  3. secondary clinical conditions
  4. How do you pronounce "Bodhisattva" in the American English dialect as well as the original pronunciation?

March 19

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 19

  1. swing the pen?
  2. Need a Greek proverb/quote
  3. Abbreviation in frame of 17th-century painting
  4. "unknown a priori"
  5. Italian

March 20

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 20

  1. the date before the place at the end of a novel?
  2. fodder vegetables?
  3. (ECx2!!!) Characters....
  4. 'Tas' - a three letter word
  5. rendering OED pronunciation for Latin words in IPA
  6. What are the differences between inflammation & infection
  7. Japanese character identification
  8. His concern for his daughter directed him toward home.
  9. Starting to begin
  10. A matter of degree?
  11. Japanese help: image descriptions and "what does the Japanese say?"
  12. Chinese translation needed
  13. The phrase "based out of"
  14. Guillemets 《 》

March 21

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 21

  1. stir oneself
  2. Figuratively speaking
  3. Japanese for "sub-chassis"
  4. Arabic question: File:Graffiti_in_tunis.JPG
  5. "I couldn't disagree more"
  6. lovey-dovey to describe a man?

March 22

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 22

  1. Latin alphabet to Cyrillic script
  2. Whether it is/be
  3. 'Mu-um!', 'Da-ad!' - making two syllables out of one
  4. Crabtree sticks
  5. You can manage anyway?
  6. Japanese character identification
  7. Chinese Translation Urgently Needed!!
  8. what is the meaning of diabetes melitus?
  9. English words with "y" sound

March 23

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 23

  1. remember...as & songs played on the recorder
  2. Japanese grammar difficult
  3. "Geekspeak" as dialect
  4. The couple's quarrels are the rule rather than the exception.
  5. Japanese character identification

March 24

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 24

  1. The old man walked with his face upturned/ with his face upward/with his chin up in the air.
  2. "book" in the sense of "move quickly" or "leave before it's too late"
  3. "He asked him to ask his teacher."
  4. Time to complete accident damages
  5. I can no longer be sure what thoughts it is that I had

March 25

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 25

  1. Roger Brown
  2. Translation from French to English
  3. in as varied ways as...
  4. Russian eyes needed please
  5. declension of names
  6. older candidates

March 26

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 26

  1. Fescal: German readers needed to help establish notability
  2. Accent in Yiddish
  3. Term
  4. work at the textbook
  5. Is the English word "God" a name or a title?
  6. Whether the meaning of the sentence is clear
  7. relative of Bed No.2

March 27

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 27

  1. how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom
  2. Origin of the "not safe for work" warning
  3. about verb tense
  4. vocational schools
  5. What a help I'm keeping by apples!

March 30

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 30

  1. Chinese question:
  2. attribution of languages
  3. Rifle platoon leader v. infantry officer (platoon level)

March 31

[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 March 31

  1. Hardness as a personal trait
  2. High English?
  3. Anfechtung
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/March_2014&oldid=1073351945"