Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2010

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 1


 * 1) Pronunciation for "Ehrie"
 * 2) Hindi/Urdu in Roman Script in Media and Music
 * 3) Density of verbal communication

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 2


 * 1) Word use prerogative
 * 2) Russian word
 * 3) Los Angeles
 * 4) Etymology: is "urban" from Ur?
 * 5) super, hyper and ultra
 * 6) Pronunciation of döner kebab in Turkish

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 3


 * 1) Aboriginal language
 * 2) 'Artists'
 * 3) what is correct pronunciation of St. Donat's?
 * 4) The best way to use Tengwar in English

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 4


 * 1) Comma placement
 * 2) Network S.P.A
 * 3) Stars
 * 4) Devaluation of "snub"
 * 5) A bit like Tom Brown in the Reign of William IV
 * 6) French mot du jour services?
 * 7) IPA for "L" in Church Slavonic/Russian
 * 8) Native American Greetings
 * 9) alternate definition for asynchronous learning

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 5


 * 1) Etymology of Leir
 * 2) And Then There Were None
 * 3) Hatmep
 * 4) English AO words
 * 5) Metroad
 * 6) Stress in single-syllable words

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 6


 * 1) Latin "re-"
 * 2) Do you Brits say "emphasise"?
 * 3) Colon and dash
 * 4) Please help me translating this "diplomatic English" into layman's terms. Thanks.

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 7


 * 1) verbs used as nouns
 * 2) logical consequences
 * 3) How can i add new language?
 * 4) English to Spanish
 * 5) The word "segregation"
 * 6) Hebrew Translation
 * 7) English word stress (compared with Greek and Latin)
 * 8) Standing on the shoulders of giants - Latin

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 8


 * 1) Quicken?
 * 2) 3 types of ironys
 * 3) Asking about Spanish homework

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 9


 * 1) Chinese-English transliteration: Jiang Jieshi and the Qing Dynasty
 * 2) "Brinjal" and "jackal"
 * 3) Adjectival Form
 * 4) self-determinate, as a verb?
 * 5) Ukrainian translation

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 10


 * 1) Aqua
 * 2) Smash the Kaiser
 * 3) Ukrainian/Russian names
 * 4) Sport vs sportS in American English

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 11


 * 1) English grammar question
 * 2) "Failure to progress is to regress"
 * 3) Rhyming free verse

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 12


 * 1) Glass balls with fake snow stuff inside
 * 2) Meaning
 * 3) European Triple Crown
 * 4) Etymology of "fisherman"
 * 5) English literature
 * 6) JFC
 * 7) Hugo Grotius latin quote about church history
 * 8) Mathieu Bastareaud
 * 9) Do countries have gender?

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 13


 * 1) Russian translation please?
 * 2) Neighborhood hole
 * 3) OED help, please?
 * 4) Grammar & punctuation
 * 5) Nepotism
 * 6) Where do I start with Elizabethan English?
 * 7) Motto for being couraged
 * 8) Phrases & expressions in English

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 14


 * 1) Old English
 * 2) Turks

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 15


 * 1) Demonyms
 * 2) "A dank"
 * 3) bangla-english translator
 * 4) Spat response
 * 5) three strange foreign language requests
 * 6) Whoever vs. whomever
 * 7) Word meaning "line in a play"

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 16


 * 1) Quick translation question
 * 2) A greek nose for the future
 * 3) Strait the gate
 * 4) Use of the word 'liberal' in America

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 17


 * 1) place name and family name
 * 2) translation
 * 3) what is the official term for
 * 4) i do not find these words in my dictionnary, gulp > help
 * 5) Chinese translation...

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 18


 * 1) Sai Ong lost a horse ... (done)
 * 2) Isn't this an oxymoron?
 * 3) Virgin
 * 4) The colour bronze - translation to Latin
 * 5) Spelling  of a word the news media people use about terrorists returning to fight.
 * 6) watch someone give or giving
 * 7) Is "Alight here" plain English?
 * 8) Which is it?
 * 9) Portuguese vowel letters with tilde
 * 10) Using us vs. we

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 19


 * 1) "The statute of limitations has expired"
 * 2) My hovercraft is full of eels

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 20


 * 1) What is this sound?
 * 2) Picture
 * 3) onomatopoeia for fart
 * 4) Meine Ehre heißt Treue
 * 5) Portuguese words

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 21


 * 1) Welsh
 * 2) Buryat and Mongolian (Khalka)
 * 3) Mann von Geist und sogar poetischen Geist
 * 4) Dog biscuits

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 22


 * 1) strange use of quid pro quo
 * 2) Repluralisation of initialisms, not to mention fried chicken
 * 3) "Mexico City" in various languages
 * 4) hip hip hurra
 * 5) Verbs
 * 6) Looking for a 1997 definition of "Font" as "a specific member of a type family."

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 23


 * 1) Goofy foot
 * 2) common imageries/metaphors for
 * 3) Thai (?) translation request
 * 4) Dubious usage of (English) word
 * 5) Use of stock phrases by the media
 * 6) Etymology of Forever 21
 * 7) Word for something
 * 8) Possessive apostrophe in a resume
 * 9) Some Italian
 * 10) french

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 24


 * 1) Greek Terminology
 * 2) Vedda language
 * 3) "A Future Fair for All"
 * 4) Cangjie decomposition
 * 5) dash, hyphen or space?`
 * 6) Is there a word for an admiral's hat?

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 25


 * 1) indulgent
 * 2) harbour-bar
 * 3) Standard american english
 * 4) Why do women say girlfriend?
 * 5) Mosophiles
 * 6) Schmazi ?

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 26


 * 1) Scottish_Café
 * 2) Ossolineum
 * 3) Edit Summary Abbreviation
 * 4) Tonal language with guttural sounds?
 * 5) "Sans"
 * 6) archived
 * 7) What does this mean?
 * 8) German Streik and Streit
 * 9) context is an indespensible deternimant of meaning in a text, justify this against cognitive and referential interpretation
 * 10) Empty Set
 * 11) Question about Death Comes as The End
 * 12) Main diff
 * 13) Demonyms
 * 14) "Capitalization"

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 27


 * 1) Mother Hubbard dress
 * 2) German vocabulary in  Quantum Physics
 * 3) How many words does French have?
 * 4) Shocked, dumbfounded, perplexed, stupified, open-mouthed, "huh?"
 * 5) Car or automobile
 * 6) Pee or Wee
 * 7) Some Italian Part 2
 * 8) Terminology
 * 9) What's a tassie?

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 28


 * 1) English equivalent for the German expression "Sympathieträger"
 * 2) English into IPA transcription?
 * 3) English to Latin
 * 4) affect/effect
 * 5) black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta
 * 6) Zircons
 * 7) Adalbert of Prague