Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2015

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 1


 * 1) Is the word total singular or plural or both?

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 2


 * 1) Doubling final consonant
 * 2) wie es eigentlich geworden ist

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 3


 * 1) Convert Russian GPS format to English
 * 2) Can you decipher this tattoo in Hebrew?
 * 3) Question about "ghast..." words

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 4


 * 1) Esperanto
 * 2) Hindu question

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 5


 * 1) Who is or was Hadia Bejar?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 6


 * 1) Transcription of a line from a video

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 7


 * 1) Which programming languages allow trailing commas?
 * 2) Do Story

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 8


 * 1) Who came up first with U and J?

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 9


 * 1) Addressing a Formal French Envelope

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 10


 * 1) Lemony Snicket word
 * 2) Very vs much; MS Word grammar advice
 * 3) Maya glottal stop: Typography
 * 4) Animal equivalent to "personality" ?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 11


 * 1) Link Grammar

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 12


 * 1) I don't give a damn

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 14


 * 1) Your man
 * 2) How many native speakers of English would consider "am become" ungrammatical?
 * 3) Slovenian street name question

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 15


 * 1) It was carried out root canal treatment on one of the UK’s largest gorillas. English?
 * 2) West Indie

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 16


 * 1) Constancy of Hebrew ?
 * 2) 'Typical or 'atypical': Does either of them mean 'difficult'?

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 17


 * 1) A/an with "herbivore"
 * 2) Dropping the "h" in "human"

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 18


 * 1) English = genderless?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 19


 * 1) Japanese
 * 2) "Potential candidates should be proficient in one of two fields. The first being xxxx. The second being yyyy."
 * 3) Wrong connection, extra rule? "The Bachelor of Forensic Science, like any empirical science, is based on ... ."

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 20


 * 1) Put a mockers on it

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 21


 * 1) Minimal-maximal condition
 * 2) What does this phrase mean?
 * 3) Name for someone who speaks a foreign language but does not write it

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 22


 * 1) Mitsudomoe
 * 2) "造字"
 * 3) Headlines
 * 4) How many Danish speakers in each state

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 23


 * 1) Romanian language help sought

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 24


 * 1) German first edition

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 25


 * 1) That's not a word
 * 2) The turtle crawls. The person walks (i.e. faster than crawling). The ant runs (i.e. faster than walking). The airplane flies (i.e. faster than running).
 * 3) Suppletion to express fractions
 * 4) Language Development

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 26


 * 1) to and before

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 28


 * 1) Wild boar in Latin
 * 2) Liveability
 * 3) Bulgarian (Krisia)

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 29


 * 1) Russian place name meaning
 * 2) Referring to art works by the artist's name

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 30


 * 1) Jamais mon amour
 * 2) AmE in the UK, or BrE in the US: error?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 December 31


 * 1) हमैं अतीत को भूल जाना हैं और आगे की ओर देखना चाहिए
 * 2) Pho questions