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September 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 1

  1. "were quit"
  2. "[Color] [Article of Clothing]" as a euphemism for cuckoldry
  3. Is this Hindi Translation correct?
  4. German translations
  5. Definition of expression
  6. Awoken or awakened?
  7. Rhode Island
  8. Official UN languages
  9. Gender in German
  10. PAST PRESENT FUTURE (English)
  11. Fricatives - mixed voicing
  12. Roman naming

September 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 2

  1. English accent
  2. Gerunds and pronouns: "his being" or "him being"
  3. Banana
  4. Is it ever right to use sensitive as a noun?
  5. Title of the Russian civl servant of the lowest order

September 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 3

  1. Russian proofreader needed
  2. Chinese Dialect (?)

September 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 4

  1. Initial confusion
  2. Can the verb "to be" be followed by a gerund?
  3. Word for giving up of some rights upon joining the military

September 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 5

  1. Latin names

September 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 6

  1. "Sports events" or "Sporting events"
  2. Lewis Carroll
  3. kyujitai again
  4. Agamid toes
  5. Rhymes

September 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 7

  1. What language is this in?
  2. Difference between agglutinative and isolating languages
  3. Languages of Austria-Hungary
  4. Need English translation of Latin (?) paragraph
  5. Golf Course Humor
  6. Possessive form
  7. Rules on emphasizing punctuation
  8. origin of word
  9. Latin words please
  10. Translation help please

September 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 8

  1. Chinese sentence translation assistance please.
  2. Brackets
  3. women, woven
  4. german names, meanings
  5. Grammar check
  6. Cordycepin pronounciation
  7. How do I form the female equivalents of each of these French nouns?

September 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 9

  1. Chinese translation, please
  2. Meaning of the surname "Seay"
  3. Latin translations of The Name of the Rose passages?
  4. American English dictionary?
  5. Ghoti
  6. Faintly ridiculous
  7. Obscure Latin Maxim

September 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 10

  1. Radium
  2. A Slovak Lanugage Standard That Had Been Confsicated By Hungarians, Shelved In A Hungarian Library Due To Hungarian Censorship Out Of Magyarization And Polish Dialects That Were Once Languages That Ar
  3. a rather basic English grammar question
  4. Swedish equivalent of the name Harriet
  5. What does this ambiguous statement mean?
  6. reading
  7. A question for Americans of the Western Seaboard (including Western Alaska):
  8. "solid, unbroken tone"
  9. Muimota

September 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 11

  1. Shot
  2. Eyethangyew
  3. is there a term for the phenomenon where -
  4. discastery
  5. Kai Shu Chinese Font

September 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 12

  1. Some surnames in reverse order
  2. Kinship term for relation between one's sets of grandparents
  3. I plan to study and stay in Japan for several years.
  4. 松 = ?
  5. Korean spicy sauce - tenjang

September 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 13

  1. Aibrushed vs. Photoshopped
  2. Crossword puzzler
  3. "marriage" -- "fatherhood" -- "has a career"
  4. "be said"
  5. Manchuria
  6. Multilingual Wikipedias

September 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 14

  1. Diminutives of Russian given names
  2. Information on a- prefixed to verbs
  3. Kanji question: Is it upside down?

September 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 15

  1. Ruby
  2. Classics
  3. Japanese translation
  4. Chinese translation desired, please
  5. Bi-Bi Pedagogical Method Historical Origins
  6. Pronunciation

September 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 16

  1. Any other persons
  2. Name For The Phenomenon Where.....?
  3. T & D sound
  4. IPA request
  5. This is some wording in a poster, I have a question on which is correct or the better to use

September 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 17

  1. Hell -Underworld
  2. Origin of phrase
  3. Stress in German Compound Words
  4. When does a romanisation become a word?
  5. "Taking part in a nature trail"?

September 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 18

  1. I lost my grandmother's dictionary
  2. a manor in Central Park
  3. Not sher

September 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 19

  1. Standards
  2. Wrestling Fora
  3. Assassination
  4. Letters of marque
  5. Ç
  6. Unusual palatalized consonants

September 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 20

  1. Translations
  2. Rhetorical device involving repetition for contrast
  3. Programmin Logic of this: 1 232 34543 232 1

September 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 21

  1. "The old rale"
  2. Letters which could be merged without creating homographs
  3. Latin Translation

September 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 22

  1. Referring to countries/cities as "she"
  2. IPA Transcription
  3. 13-letter words

September 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 23

  1. Eye color, FR>EN/HE
  2. Ee, I could murder a cup o' tea
  3. Never written
  4. Latin definition
  5. NY times - is it right?
  6. Where vs. in which
  7. Double interpretation of localities
  8. German T-shirt
  9. Melbourne > Melburnian

September 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 24

  1. Leghorn
  2. need a word
  3. Contract law terminology
  4. Simplified Chinese phrase translation help
  5. Florentia→Fiorenza→Firenze
  6. British biscuits
  7. Yet another German question
  8. In the news

September 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 25

  1. Ukrainian Slaves
  2. Adjectival Lexeme Of "Lorraine"

September 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 26

  1. Are there native English speakers who pronounce "kings" (etc.) - like: kiŋgs / kiŋgz /, i.e. pronouncing the g?
  2. What is this term?

September 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 27

  1. Bukovinan or Bukovinian
  2. Taihenni arigatoo!
  3. What would be the Latin translation of "Straight out of Compton"?

September 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 28

  1. Norwegian Language Question
  2. Spelling and culture

September 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 29

  1. Crash Dive
  2. Difference
  3. mirror under car
  4. Genitive case for possessive pronouns in Russian
  5. Yiddish

September 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 September 30

  1. Grammar Help
  2. Latin phrase: "He loves the wine and the dog"
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