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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 1

1. Hospitalised
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Most "comlpex" ("complicated") Chinese character. Any suggestions?
4. Nihongo translation please...
5. Another thing about hospitals...
6. atweene
7. Breaching

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 2

1. Telephone (song) video
2. Difference between Classical Arabic and Egyptian Arabic
3. Junk food
4. Minimum Sound Range for Human Language
5. translation
6. APA Style

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 3

1. Purpose of colon in IPA?
2. Short for 'Jeremy'?
3. Arabic name of the Mossad
4. Is this Dutch?
5. Arabic names of some Israeli subjects
6. Colon

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 4

1. Specially and especially
2. German question
3. people speaking hindi alone
4. Phonetics
5. active voice passive voice?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 5

1. Countries ending with -stan
2. flowery toast
3. http://eupa.ca/
4. Old Latin verses New Latin
5. "Dost thou know a website whence Shakespearian prose cometh forth from the tongue of our times?"
6. Table about Concerns
7. A E I O U

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 6

1. Who's on first? ("Extraterrestrial life(forms)")
2. Triste en corps bière
3. German language in user interfaces
4. French
5. Abu Bakr
6. Is there a word for...

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 7

1. Is "refingerprint" a word?
2. Opposites of 'well-to-do' and 'well off'
3. Correct form
4. Invitation to help me out with my German

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 8

1. Use of "often"
2. "Of" or "Off"?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 9

1. Translate that phrase
2. What does Не атрымалася надзейна выявіць зыходны мова mean
3. Strange language found on shirt
4. Seen, unseen, heard, unheard

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 10

1. Livid
2. Use of the present Subjunctive in English.
3. Proboscis
4. Learning a new language
5. Arabic
6. Hebrew inscription?
7. Spanish word for bottle

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 11

1. First names with other meanings
2. Origin and history of the term "Indian subcontinent"?
3. Cannot think of the name of a logical fallacy
4. Word related to fanfic
5. Kechemeche
6. 'Knockoff'

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 12

1. Language disorders
2. Son House
3. Xenophily
4. Merging of expressions into single words

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 13

1. Correct legal terminology
2. 'Education level', 'educational level' or 'level of education
3. Consent versus assent
4. Translation into "small" languages
5. Will the real * please stand up

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 14

1. Praise of self-subsisting
2. Use of the word "Allah"
3. Word for "Small Talk"
4. "Wie Hunde bellen" - German Help?
5. What is the right situation to use these
6. translate

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 15

1. ne'er cast a clout 'fore May is out
2. Quoting speech of a book/movie character
3. Grammar
4. I needs some words

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 16

1. Hebe Camargo
2. Etymology of Romanian "dragostea"

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 17

1. L'Internationale in Chinese
2. 'Meaning' of Sushi
3. Speed of writing in different systems
4. I s'll search no more, but ask here instead.
5. Polish word "westchnąć"
6. Chicken Curry/Curry Chicken, Curried Chicken?

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 18

1. Asian names

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 19

1. Japanese: Why they tell Cohii with H (coffee) when they got F?189.233.31.11 (talk) 00:26, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
2. Estadio corazón (embriogénesis vegetal)
3. french
4. Arabic translation
5. Account with m-w.com
6. Minimal pairs distinguished by stress
7. Learn polish
8. La ciudad más bailadora
9. What is the correct tense in this situation?
10. 'amigos llamantes'

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 20

1. stymie
2. Doodah
3. southern's lovers passion
4. Which language of former Yugoslavia is this?
5. Schindler's Liſt
6. Chinese characters, weird translation
7. Deliverables
8. Palais de Tokyo
9. Word for song transition
10. Origin of a Phrase.

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 21

1. IPA generator
2. named after / named for
3. French inhale - Etymology
4. common burial
5. Lal Bihari Mritak - translation of 'mritak'
6. Norwegian surname spelling

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 22

1. Hand
2. born, a grammatical question
3. Daniel F. Galouye – Pronunciation of Surname
4. Modern (American?) pronunciation of "finale"

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 23

1. Two words, same meaning, different connotations?
2. Breadalbane, Scotland
3. Points and scoring
4. British English

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 24

1. lap for laptop
2. Evocation v. Provocation
3. Polyglot toponyms
4. Arts and letters
5. Icelandic relative clauses
6. chinese translation

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 25

1. Sophocracy in Chinese, Pali and Sanskrit
2. First priority
3. Weird seating arrangement
4. Perp smart/street smart
5. English word search
6. Place in Madagascar
7. Holy Trinity in German, Dutch, and Portuguese

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 26

1. dictionary
2. Telestian
3. Where can I get my fiction stories critiqued?
4. "Is is"

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 27

1. Translating names of currency
2. Kopek
3. renegate
4. Pronunciation of "Munasinghe"
5. Watershed moment
6. I look for a song name
7. Japanese verb forms

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 28

1. Chinese characters and readings
2. Commodity Price Risk
3. Sao and Neso
4. Malayalam pronounciation
5. "The Nasty Party"
6. Two-part title of book
7. computador and computadora?

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 29

1. Math word complaints
2. Bengali help
3. "Golden Gull"
4. Chrzciciel
5. Italicizing 'of,' 'the,' etc.
6. "Tomorrow" in Cantonese
7. Words with no relevant grammatical function

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 30

1. Finnish exonym
2. Pronunciation of the Italian name Giorgio
3. British equivalent to M-W.com
4. Japanese "ri" hiragana
5. Translation into Chinese

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 31

1. Russian edition of Bandura's Social Foundations of Thought and Action - seeking Pub Info
2. Where did they come from ?
3. Hire French staff for a fake restaurant
4. Omnis est
5. Whistling and humming
6. Boonie hat
7. Waste grain
8. "Alexander" in Old Persian
9. Japanese
10. "Approve" and "Of"
11. origin of a proverb
12. Word for stooping illness