Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2012

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 1


 * 1) thesaurus-partner
 * 2) Most and least common phonemes
 * 3) Back Of The Neck Of A Pig
 * 4) Languages with the most phonemes

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 2


 * 1) What is Neutral Spanish?
 * 2) Phonetic evolution, or lack thereof, of classical personal names
 * 3) English/French
 * 4) Ryuichi Sakamoto translate lyrics

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 3


 * 1) closer to greedy

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 4


 * 1) caisson - refine meaning?
 * 2) SimSimi
 * 3) Jokes - the translation of, and for connected purposes
 * 4) "Lycidas" by John Milton (page on Wikipedia)
 * 5) "International Lease Finance Corporation" in Spanish
 * 6) I'm looking for languages, other than English, in which "to be" and "to see" rhyme.
 * 7) Can the word Am start a non-interrogative sentence?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 5


 * 1) Chinese: "To be or not to be".
 * 2) Bouncing baby boys
 * 3) Rounded and unrounded vowels
 * 4) "before" & "beget"

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 6


 * 1) Origin
 * 2) Alvin as a Swedish given name

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 7


 * 1) Optim
 * 2) Grammatically correct

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 8


 * 1) Punctuation help
 * 2) Revolting, disgusting behaviour
 * 3) Mongolian (cyrillic) help
 * 4) etymology of "john" meaning toilet
 * 5) Use of the word 'that'

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 9


 * 1) Exact definition of "tenfold"
 * 2) Male and Female Words

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 10


 * 1) Symbol used to donate denote a paragraph that outlines the meaning of someone's name.
 * 2) Pronunciation of "r" as "w"
 * 3) Dessert
 * 4) "Former" and "then-"

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 11


 * 1) Cleverness
 * 2) [ð] → [v]
 * 3) Unknown language
 * 4) Pronouncing 同盟
 * 5) Looking for a site that adds Persian short vowels when transliterating
 * 6) German pronunciation question
 * 7) zahiere means what in spanish?

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 12


 * 1) Medieval Latin help - "cows" or "cattle"
 * 2) General American accent: Is the "t" in "beat me", "look at me", and likewise, pronounced as a glottal stop?
 * 3) Hochunk Native American
 * 4) Being democratic or being pro Democratic Party

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 13


 * 1) Contracting In French
 * 2) What's mean of "lack of teeth"?
 * 3) classical tamil
 * 4) Writing a thesis/article in Canadian University standard
 * 5) Estonians and Finnish

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 14


 * 1) size of language learning industry
 * 2) Name for part of a name

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 15


 * 1) Intepreting a sentence
 * 2) Eifersucht
 * 3) French Language
 * 4) Half-voiced affricate?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 16


 * 1) Japanese text over Japanese text?
 * 2) Arabic name
 * 3) Central Asian languages

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 17


 * 1) Need help with Chinese or Japanese reference
 * 2) French capitalisation
 * 3) Nigdar ni bilo da nije nekak bilo - niti nigdar nebu da nekak nebu

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 18


 * 1) paradigmatic
 * 2) A particular style of roman numerals

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 19


 * 1) Phonological change and information theory
 * 2) IPA
 * 3) Szeemann, Harald
 * 4) French pronunciation
 * 5) labor sine deliciae vana

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 20


 * 1) Japanese name of Swiss agency
 * 2) Arabic name of Egyptian agency
 * 3) Chinese help
 * 4) I think he could use a "fishing area"
 * 5) is ⟨c⟩ ever /ts/ in English?
 * 6) French -ai/-ais/-ait

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 21


 * 1) French help
 * 2) "Hand" and "five"
 * 3) səgg-JEST
 * 4) Unleaded?
 * 5) What is the word to describe...

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 22


 * 1) Middle English
 * 2) 'Buried in' or 'buried at' a cemetery?
 * 3) How does one spell suffixed words derived from English verbs ending in "-fer" ?
 * 4) Possessive of 'Mice'
 * 5) When you feel that you have pronounced something wrong (but haven't)
 * 6) Zulu translation

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 23


 * 1) "Put that in your pipe and smoke it"
 * 2) [The] Sudetenland
 * 3) Use of words in ways that are clearly misleading
 * 4) Pronunciation: which varieties of English make a distinction between wander and wonder, and which varieties do not?
 * 5) consonant consistent
 * 6) "a society who"?
 * 7) Need a word
 * 8) Latin
 * 9) The previous name for 中国 in Japanese
 * 10) battery in battery cage

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 24


 * 1) "I Know You Want Me" Pitbull song question
 * 2) Natural language
 * 3) Chinese reading question
 * 4) Saxon element in Old English
 * 5) Italics? Diacritics?

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 25


 * 1) Definition of "milestone"
 * 2) Seu
 * 3) Hebrew language help requested
 * 4) Japanese names for Korean cities
 * 5) Is there a name for this grammatical error?
 * 6) When did English lose verb endings?
 * 7) Need Arabic script
 * 8) Identifying the language, and translating the lyrics, of the song Ramaya
 * 9) Ysgol
 * 10) A couple of grammar/ style questions
 * 11) Occy Occy Occy! Oi Oi Oi!

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 26


 * 1) Japanese character readings
 * 2) What language are the subtitles in this Flight of the Conchords video?
 * 3) Arabic help

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 27


 * 1) Why do languages that use the Roman alphabet spell words that can be different from their pronunciation?
 * 2) How to translate "Stadtoriginal"

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 28


 * 1) Are interns underpaid?
 * 2) Falkland Islands
 * 3) "Met with" or "was met with" a reaction?

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 29


 * 1) Japanese myth -- need kanji confirmation
 * 2) Spanish translations
 * 3) ALTERNATIVE WORDS TO
 * 4) Latin phrase
 * 5) Pre-ordering and pre-booking