Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2009

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 1


 * 1) PIE cognates
 * 2) "Spill" in the context of Australian politics
 * 3) Mob Rules
 * 4) Station wagons

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 2


 * 1) Fiat
 * 2) "See me right" in US English
 * 3) Rounded front vowels in English
 * 4) Finnish
 * 5) Meaning of the phrase "touch Indians"
 * 6) I would like to have met................

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 3


 * 1) Double oxymoron/paradox
 * 2) J and Y in English
 * 3) How do you translate "勢" in Chinese into English?
 * 4) Single or double quotes when referring to a word
 * 5) Tasty appetite
 * 6) Offered to
 * 7) Declension/translation of taxi in Czech

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 4


 * 1) English Language Punctuation
 * 2) German translation
 * 3) British Or North American
 * 4) Contour vowel 'a'
 * 5) Timbits a disabled slur?
 * 6) Russian to English: Poster translation

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 5


 * 1) Danish-language resources for the Climate Change Conference
 * 2) Names for Russia in Estonian and Latvian
 * 3) practice vs practise

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 6


 * 1) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
 * 2) Holy Roman Empire
 * 3) Language games to amuse kids
 * 4) French phonotactics

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 7


 * 1) Could Guinea Be The Result Of The People?
 * 2) Willamette
 * 3) Potahto
 * 4) Word origin
 * 5) I know the meaning, I need the right word.
 * 6) Style Guide
 * 7) Preposition used for "street" or "square"?
 * 8) Word help
 * 9) pastime

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 8


 * 1) CHN - difference in meaning/usage between 规划 and 计划
 * 2) The expression 'late' when referring to a person deceased.
 * 3) Awkward sentence
 * 4) Incorrect Language link
 * 5) foreign language book of sayings or expressions.
 * 6) To want in Chinese

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 9


 * 1) Etymology
 * 2) Fortis-lenis contrast
 * 3) English saying
 * 4) Translation of jital coin from Lahore
 * 5) German: "a" vs "-(e)r"
 * 6) Oh Doctor Oh Doctor

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 10


 * 1) Co-occurrence of two Amharic affixes

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 11


 * 1) Automaton
 * 2) in lieu with?
 * 3) Zhooge
 * 4) Basque translation
 * 5) German translation please
 * 6) a tricky "let" in a sentence
 * 7) Lover of bitter things
 * 8) Diludium

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 12


 * 1) Analogous malapropism
 * 2) Phoenix
 * 3) Onomastics
 * 4) Roman Empire word
 * 5) English in Mexico
 * 6) What does 萬疆無壽 mean?
 * 7) Past simple

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 13


 * 1) H1N1 Vaccine Cost
 * 2) English in Bermuda
 * 3) Numismatics terminology, anyone?
 * 4) Nought and naught
 * 5) Does this sentence make sense?
 * 6) Objective studies of Grammatical case for use in Artificial Intelligence etc
 * 7) Translation: German - English
 * 8) Very young children and mispronunciations...

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 14


 * 1) Abbreviated form of numberless possessive noun
 * 2) bewhiskered
 * 3) Sir –
 * 4) Easiest to Most Difficult Language for Anyone to Learn...
 * 5) English translation (from Hindi-Urdu?)
 * 6) generate a glossary from a list of words
 * 7) What word describes highly functional people?
 * 8) Japanese

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 15


 * 1) Swedish help
 * 2) Uralic
 * 3) Any guesses?
 * 4) 'Til death do us part
 * 5) Meaning Of
 * 6) word or article on making things appear retro
 * 7) Unclusterable Spanish consonants

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 16


 * 1) South-African Officials - difficult names
 * 2) upbraid usage

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 17


 * 1) A month of blue Mondays
 * 2) French question
 * 3) question about a sentence in a wikipedia article
 * 4) Meaning of the Expression "coon's age"

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 18


 * 1) Hindi literature
 * 2) Untimely death
 * 3) Genitalia slangs in English
 * 4) I hope this post doesn't get you in trouble with the neighbors...

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 19


 * 1) Translation please
 * 2) Spanish consonant 'ñ'
 * 3) Send in the 'Narines
 * 4) Shanghiese
 * 5) Languages of Wikipedia
 * 6) Evidence of Danish accent?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 20


 * 1) translation from Yiddish to English
 * 2) F's and s's in old documents

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 21


 * 1) Hanging
 * 2) translation for the sires of Enghien
 * 3) Pronunciation of Derwood
 * 4) Evocative
 * 5) Woman as an adjective
 * 6) Is this good Latin, or Dog Latin?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 22


 * 1) креатура (Russian! :)
 * 2) Arbeit macht frei - translation

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 23


 * 1) Somebody wrote me a message in Arabic
 * 2) Shoes
 * 3) Hirsebeutels Hymne
 * 4) Where is this "A" originally from???

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 24


 * 1) Vivid?  Really?
 * 2) Six days left and I'm still uncomfortable calling them the "ohs", "aughts" or "noughties". How about you?
 * 3) Company Of Heroes (game)

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 25


 * 1) Need a 7 letter word meaning last
 * 2) Hair
 * 3) Dried eye fluid
 * 4) Backwards dictionary
 * 5) Evocative (on the question of syntax)
 * 6) Capitalization of pronoun "I"

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 26


 * 1) Aussie English
 * 2) 作 and 做
 * 3) Comma use
 * 4) meaning of word
 * 5) word for brand name that becomes generic name
 * 6) China

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 27


 * 1) Mr. Bishi
 * 2) Zodi Ikhia
 * 3) Pondicherry politician

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 28


 * 1) Spanish and/or Portuguese ghost question
 * 2) Stottlemyre
 * 3) Correcting errors
 * 4) Direct and Indirect speech
 * 5) Artifacted or artifaced?

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 29


 * 1) Klingon
 * 2) Translation assistance, please
 * 3) Translate "gods" into Chinese please.
 * 4) "Automatic Updates is turned off."
 * 5) The names Ivan vs. Ioanno in Russian

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 30


 * 1) Face of Jesus
 * 2) Which preposition with "behalf"?
 * 3) help with cryptic crossword requested
 * 4) What does this Asian text say?
 * 5) Grammatical agreement
 * 6) Chinese

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 31


 * 1) Potato/Tomato
 * 2) Translate/Identify German text?
 * 3) The Barefoot Contessa
 * 4) Cinderella