Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2011

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 1


 * 1) In the following sentence "himself" referes to whom? Why?
 * 2) Origin of "Black-Eyed Susan"
 * 3) Schränker
 * 4) French name for Warsaw

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 2


 * 1) Editor in chief
 * 2) Relationship
 * 3) French tenses

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 3


 * 1) Proche-Orient vs. Moyen-Orient
 * 2) Is it "a" or "an" before "heuristic" (and similar words)?
 * 3) Premier vs. premiere
 * 4) What is a revival?
 * 5) Gunihatawagotonohotondoha
 * 6) Looking for a learners' monolingual french dictionary
 * 7) Poetry

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 4


 * 1) Lyrics of Lady Gaga's Born This Way
 * 2) Sign (linguistics)
 * 3) What is the meaning of "East eats West"?
 * 4) Stress-dependent meanings
 * 5) Big bird, little bird
 * 6) Napiery
 * 7) Spanish help

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 5


 * 1) French expression  « le suivi transversal »
 * 2) Please Advise
 * 3) Looking for a word
 * 4) Moose/elk
 * 5) Relative pronouns

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 6


 * 1) Scannable / Scanable
 * 2) Malapropism or what?

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 7


 * 1) Looking for a word
 * 2) language
 * 3) What's the French word for "fletcher"?
 * 4) What language is the word "Zaheregiu" if, in fact, ANY language?
 * 5) Japanese translation
 * 6) What meaning does the use of Prefix which is used in the following words convey?
 * 7) Pronunciation of zombie
 * 8) Researcher who wired up their own house to study their own baby
 * 9) Beckett
 * 10) Writing help
 * 11) Latin

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 8


 * 1) "Mass amounts"
 * 2) In favour / against vs. agree / disagree
 * 3) Chinese
 * 4) Punctuation
 * 5) French expressions

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 9


 * 1) "Spoon" as a verb
 * 2) Are letters and other grapheme linguistic signs?
 * 3) Ambiguity of the word "more"
 * 4) 李白的「送友人」
 * 5) Cletus Spuckler
 * 6) IPA spelling help
 * 7) Could some translate this Spanish song?
 * 8) Indicative Pronouns
 * 9) Intransitive Verbs in the Passive Voice?

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 10


 * 1) Cuál es el mejor Museo de México para visitar?
 * 2) French
 * 3) "Homeopathic" taking on a generic meaning?
 * 4) 'Neither' at the end of a sentence
 * 5) In Irish "english" what does it mean to "lay down ones shawl"?

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 11


 * 1) Blockbuster - new meaning?
 * 2) Help with sentence in Price Tag
 * 3) Pronunciation of Ani-kutani
 * 4) Rhyme or chant children use to remember how to spell "Mississippi"
 * 5) Synonyms that have opposite connotation?
 * 6) Lain and Greek

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 12


 * 1) Japanese help
 * 2) German/English Luck/Glück
 * 3) Stress of the armenian names
 * 4) Etymology of some obscure hibernicisms

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 13


 * 1) Multilingual works?
 * 2) More Japanese help
 * 3) languages translation on left column listing

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 14


 * 1) Need to understand grammatical structure of the following sentence
 * 2) Russian map
 * 3) Word for someone who enjoys seeing others suffering
 * 4) Facebook Terminology
 * 5) Adverbs and auxiliaries

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 15


 * 1) Linguistic borrowing
 * 2) The hang up button on a phone
 * 3) Qoph
 * 4) "Crwd"
 * 5) Siberian Elephants

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 16


 * 1) Translation from Arabic
 * 2) Treeing preay and dropping balls
 * 3) Achim (name, New Testament)

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 17


 * 1) Arabic help

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 18


 * 1) Hebrew help
 * 2) Schwas in metrical English poetry
 * 3) Does anyone remember  this ?
 * 4) pronunciation of "Æthelberht" and "Attenborough"
 * 5) Japanese translation
 * 6) Intelligibility of French
 * 7) Singular us?
 * 8) Eastern European map
 * 9) Nouns indicating residency
 * 10) Japanese translation
 * 11) "Gotten" not standard?

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 19


 * 1) Portuguese help
 * 2) French translation
 * 3) French adjectives
 * 4) French capitalisation of adjectives and nouns in titles
 * 5) Question on biblical latin

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 20


 * 1) Crucible Curse
 * 2) French translation please
 * 3) Commune
 * 4) Another French-related question

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 21


 * 1) René(e)
 * 2) An hotel/a hotel, an hospital/a hospital
 * 3) Notional agreement
 * 4) sane/sanity, etc.

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 22


 * 1) picture vs photo
 * 2) Extrametricality
 * 3) /r/
 * 4) extended meaning of 'kreplach'
 * 5) ACT English section
 * 6) Funny Armenian translation

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 23


 * 1) Demonyms for Niger and Nigeria
 * 2) Cryptic crossword
 * 3) Deltas And Tributaries
 * 4) Literal translation from Spanish = Sexual harassment?

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 24


 * 1) Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)- how prevalent is it?
 * 2) Spanish conjugation oddity
 * 3) I can see

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 25


 * 1) Meaning of "smell like soup"
 * 2) "English" to "American" English translations
 * 3) Markers?

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 26


 * 1) Downward Comparisons of Plural Nouns often treated as singular.
 * 2) Fastest language?
 * 3) Italian pronunciation and IPA for the name "Cocchi"
 * 4) What does this line mean?
 * 5) language
 * 6) Modern Japanese

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 27


 * 1) Salvador, Bahia
 * 2) URDU PAGES
 * 3) Fatah & reverse acronyms

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 29


 * 1) Double loan words
 * 2) Pronunciation of  The Mall, London
 * 3) Adjectives following nouns and pronouns in English
 * 4) Japanese translation

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 April 30


 * 1) Arabic name for an Iraqi/Syrian turtle
 * 2) How do you find your missing pen?
 * 3) Lay/Lie down
 * 4) "[..] the French government anticipates its becoming an Outermost Region"
 * 5) Fou vs. fol in French