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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 1

1. "Can't be helped" and Japanese
2. "Nader Nadernejad" may not match encyclopedic tone?

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 2

1. What are these Chinese characters?
2. Drug delivery
3. When the man said alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, I naturally assumed he was making a delivery." Can anyone trace the original source
4. What is this Arabic text? (small and hard to see)

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 3

1. Persian (including Old Persian): Does it have any word similar to the English word "good" by both sound and meaning?
2. Latin-to-English translation

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 4

1. Does this sentence convey my message?
2. Arabic question: German School of Beirut
3. De nada
4. History of the abbreviations 'ag' or 'a/g' (for "acting")

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 5

1. A short term for scaling up/ mass production difficulty
2. Metric body height
3. (Slavo-) Macedonian folk song
4. Categorizing help

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 6

1. What does "in funds" mean?
2. Slang words for "nothing"

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 7

1. IPA pronunciation of Thuc Doan Nguyen
2. Saying sorry after bumping into someone?
3. What Arabic text corresponds to the name of the AEFE

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 8

1. What is a Better English Translation for "d'Astronome titulaire"?
2. Is this readable enough for university students?
3. Need help getting content from site in Arabic
4. death to whom?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 9

1. What is the Korean in this image?
2. Pasty Faced
3. Italian:"Amaretti"

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 10

1. What tears you apart?

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 11

1. "What all" in American dialect(s)
2. Rather or fairly difficult?
3. What is the answer (or opposite side) for "Less is more"

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 12

1. Grammaticality of "let's English"

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 13

1. Japanese question
2. MPs

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 14

1. Does anyone remember this thread?
2. Congolese

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 15

1. What does this sentence mean?
2. Lithuanian question

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 16

1. What is this given name relationship called?
2. Writing method

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 17

1. Greeting to mourners sitting shiva: "שאר" or "שער"?
2. "giving" and "receiving"
3. Lack of relative directions

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 18

1. Multiple adjectives
2. If and only if

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 19

1. Small talk
2. "Less" vs "not as"
3. And

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 20

1. shorthand transcription needed
2. "True" meaning of "poisonous"
3. Formal languages and natural languages
4. Using "accumulate" as a noun

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 21

1. Gallipot
2. What's the provenance of the given name Ahsan?
3. Japanese question: info on a book written about the Japanese school of Manaus, Brazil?
4. What's the name of the "promo" (like an abstract or a brief preface) usually printed on the back of books?
5. Fell as past participle of fall (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down)?
6. Older sibling vs younger sibling in the case of Japanese twins?
7. Explanation

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 22

1. Term for covering of track on vertical blinds?
2. multiple forenames in Spanish
3. Why is ITMO's URL ifmo.ru[http://en.ifmo.ru/]?
4. Looking for a word...

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 23

1. The letter J
2. Late Old English words derived from Old French or Anglo-Norman/Old Norman?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 24

1. Term for a demographic
2. Help with Latin RPG Button

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 25

1. When were spaces introduced in Hangul?
2. Finnish accent in the German language?
3. Wienerisch
4. What does 'tschicko? tschicko!' mean in German?

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 26

1. On the grammar and style of long sentences.
2. A pride of lions

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 27

1. Untruism?
2. Soul/Spirit

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 28

1. Pronunciation of <ye> letter in Korean
2. alike and similar
3. apheresis

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 29

1. Are the verbs "to ascertain" and "to determine" complete synonyms?
2. Haček in an American spelling bee?
3. Are you supposed to type one space or two spaces, after a period?
4. "Cogenidad"?

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 30

1. The Rain In Spain
2. Pronuciation of Dupleix
3. Marquee project

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 May 31

1. Where does the 'n' in the Arabic word for pharaoh come from?