Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/August 2013

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 1


 * 1) British passport languages

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 2


 * 1) Name of certain Polish/Slavic verbal formations
 * 2) Paths are mundane
 * 3) drawing my sight up and on and over
 * 4) pronunciation of Utsi
 * 5) Don't talk too soon
 * 6) Self-executing

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 3


 * 1) What happened to the noun for "despise"?
 * 2) The Languages of China

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 4


 * 1) Chinese reading of these characters?
 * 2) Multiple apostrophes?
 * 3) treble/triple - AmerEng vs BrEng

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 5


 * 1) Plural form of harness
 * 2) sun and air
 * 3) Chinese Pronunciation
 * 4) Wikipedian's experiences of Rosetta Stone software.
 * 5) I could be happier
 * 6) Help to find an article, apparently in Chinese Wikipedia
 * 7) Japanese help with characters on brooch

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 6


 * 1) French verbs conjugate like other French verbs
 * 2) authenticated copy vs. certified true copy
 * 3) If your parents die when you're an adult, are you an orphan?
 * 4) Chinese help

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 7


 * 1) plain public road
 * 2) Addon

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 8


 * 1) Around/Round
 * 2) The Latin derivation of "conscious"
 * 3) Smoke evacuation

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 9


 * 1) Non IE phonemes
 * 2) wrongly vs. wrong
 * 3) philistine vs. Philistine
 * 4) Meaning of "Held in the wing"
 * 5) "to spell" as used by Stephen Crane in The Open Boat
 * 6) the word "cauldron" during operation Barbarossa
 * 7) Speculations
 * 8) Lenin/Lenina
 * 9) Talk:Horsburgh Lighthouse
 * 10) We still capitalize "internet," don't we?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 10


 * 1) Number in a sequence
 * 2) Psalms in meter
 * 3) Using "through" and "by" correctly in a single sentence?
 * 4) wonder (verb)
 * 5) Using "for" to imply a contrast

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 12


 * 1) it is not a moment before time
 * 2) French verbs that have same meaning but used differently
 * 3) Detailed programmic specificity
 * 4) Jay Bird
 * 5) Yer/Ye

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 13


 * 1) Zebra crossings in en-gb
 * 2) Unaccredited actors [sic]
 * 3) Chinese characters
 * 4) word
 * 5) Latino Lover
 * 6) Classical pronounciation of Latin

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 14


 * 1) Identify this accent.
 * 2) Origin of phrase
 * 3) Why is I capitalised?
 * 4) Why do accents use specific sounds
 * 5) Long/Large

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 15


 * 1) German ui
 * 2) "Read more" or "more" sentences inserted into online news articles
 * 3) What does this sign say?

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 16


 * 1) Swedish Language = Easy to learn?
 * 2) Etymology of Comet
 * 3) Casting a spell

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 17


 * 1) German speakers: What does this mean in English?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 18


 * 1) Cham alphabet fonts?
 * 2) English Etymological Dictionary

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 19


 * 1) Opposite of dense?
 * 2) Plattdeutsch nickname - original name

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 20


 * 1) Belgian Surname
 * 2) Settling place name disagreements
 * 3) David Cameron saying "step up to the plate"?
 * 4) Tête-bêche in a sentence en francais
 * 5) An Irish slang?
 * 6) Teochew romanization

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 21


 * 1) What is X?
 * 2) Term for the U.S. plus Canada (or: North America minus Mexico)
 * 3) Japanese help: PohnpeiAirport.jpg
 * 4) self subsisting
 * 5) Help with Swedish!
 * 6) In, On or At

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 22


 * 1) Japanese translation?
 * 2) The weather is nice.
 * 3) how do you pronounce ɦ ?
 * 4) Plural or not?

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 23


 * 1) FAO and the NATO
 * 2) Chinese help: Mandarin street names of Toronto Chinatown streets
 * 3) verb doubt
 * 4) Difference between written and spoken language
 * 5) Canuckois dialect in USA
 * 6) capital letters in some articles
 * 7) U'

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 24


 * 1) Who invented the sh- thing
 * 2) Irish word: "Camailín?"
 * 3) Fernando Alonso's Spanish

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 25


 * 1) French without subjects
 * 2) beat the expert - origin

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 26


 * 1) "burning in hell" metaphor
 * 2) Term for singing better than speaking?
 * 3) Written works by Chelsea Manning
 * 4) Brackets in some letters
 * 5) Another question about on/in
 * 6) Reżyseria

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 27


 * 1) Unfixed plurals
 * 2) Shortest sentence
 * 3) some problem or any problem?
 * 4) Japanese question

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 29


 * 1) x than any other y or ys
 * 2) Finnish dairy products
 * 3) Angle brackets for graphemes
 * 4) Subjective vs. Objective Article?
 * 5) Proto Evangelium (Latin)
 * 6) Why is "larger" less large than "large"?

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 30


 * 1) Using the word " seeing "
 * 2) As/Like
 * 3) Why did they use a Romance vocabulary?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 August 31


 * 1) Accused vs Culprit
 * 2) Sssh/Hush
 * 3) What is the Arabic graffiti?
 * 4) "Autumn" and "Fall"