Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2014

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 1


 * 1) What rhymes with "just"  /dʒʊst/ ?
 * 2) English Word... from its definition.
 * 3) A good word or phrase to describe this situation

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 2


 * 1) Accents in poetry
 * 2) Is there a word?
 * 3) Why is Google Translate of Japanese so bad?

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 3


 * 1) looking for a literary term
 * 2) Is it harder for a native Chinese speaker to master Korean and Japanese...
 * 3) German word for disorientation of false motion

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 4


 * 1) Coca-cola commercial
 * 2) Jack In The Box Plural
 * 3) salt bloom
 * 4) a comma or a full stop?
 * 5) Finnish question
 * 6) Translation request - Russian --> English
 * 7) Hebrew "yi"

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 5


 * 1) The cucumber is bound to its vine.
 * 2) a long face like a cucumber
 * 3) as sb. well puts it
 * 4) Can a sentence beginning with "more than once" be inverted?
 * 5) "It" or "they" to refer to "a pair of trousers"?
 * 6) dare not think those thoughts any further
 * 7) money from selling apples
 * 8) Does beware stem from be aware?
 * 9) Writing accented letters
 * 10) yokutch language

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 6


 * 1) More than once did I meet him in New York.
 * 2) A term for clothes worn by patients in hospital
 * 3) His mind kept wandering, sometimes to whether... and sometimes to whether...
 * 4) grudge his apples
 * 5) mottled with peeling paint or mottled by the peelings of paint?
 * 6) The sun shines on me heavily.
 * 7) bank up the grave mound with earth
 * 8) a neighbor patient?
 * 9) a word in English for the classmate who shares a desk with me
 * 10) eat congee or drink congee?
 * 11) Use of enlist language word 'clicks' in American action movies
 * 12) Foreign monarchs' names translated
 * 13) VPs
 * 14) Translation request - Chinese
 * 15) Russian Text

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 7


 * 1) wall or walls of the room when I mean the four sides?
 * 2) The bed is propped up by bricks.
 * 3) lift one foot onto the other knee
 * 4) difference between rather than and instead of
 * 5) He is sleeping with the wings of his nose quivering.
 * 6) recurrent crow(or crows)  of roosters
 * 7) There is one more apple in his basket than in mine.
 * 8) a cluster of houses
 * 9) fish for a sweet potato in the crack of the ridge
 * 10) Does this make sense? and should I add some stuff more?
 * 11) Leila Fadel

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 8


 * 1) Any difference between "Don't you know it?" & "Do you not know it?"?
 * 2) Why "Somebody said" and the quotation in separate lines?
 * 3) Can "cannot but do sth." & "cannot help doing sth." be used interchangeably?
 * 4) in the hot sun or under the hot sun
 * 5) Is "go into the night on her way back home" good English?
 * 6) She clapped her hands: "That's great!"
 * 7) The apples sold away turned into money.
 * 8) List of items and punctuation
 * 9) on the river beach
 * 10) What a taste

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 9


 * 1) He bent over the desk sleeping.
 * 2) as thin as a rake, reduced to a shadow
 * 3) relatives
 * 4) He was lost to cancer.
 * 5) difference between a wheat field and wheat fields
 * 6) Urban Dictionary
 * 7) What do you call the person who...

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 10


 * 1) doggy speculation
 * 2) Meaning of word "combination"

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 11


 * 1) He can eat a big pizza at one go.
 * 2) Cædmon's Hymn
 * 3) Asking "Do you speak [insert language here]" in French
 * 4) Why is Icelandic such a stable language?
 * 5) Genitive apostrophe
 * 6) Reckless Conduct Endangering Serious Injury

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 12


 * 1) hyperemphasis
 * 2) A wind created ripples on the lake.
 * 3) Rules for alphabetical order
 * 4) Fallize three miles from Namur

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 13


 * 1) Accent identification
 * 2) MASTER'S

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 14


 * 1) Is "us siblings" correct grammar?
 * 2) Tom only allowed me to try a little of his food.
 * 3) He invited John and Mary to his party to the exclusion of Susan.
 * 4) fashion icon, style icon
 * 5) “the longest pole in the tent”

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 15


 * 1) Indecent exposure
 * 2) Two words that are sounded the same but they don't have any etymological or semantic connection

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 16


 * 1) Difference between "god" and "bra"?

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 17


 * 1) What to say if you are greeted with "How are you"?
 * 2) Prefigure v. foreshadow
 * 3) at random
 * 4) why are UK accents far more diverse within a shorter distance than N. Am. accents?
 * 5) Von Bismarck died 20 June 1815

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 18


 * 1) Capitalization of on board
 * 2) Is the Spanish consonant "ch" sounded the same in the past?
 * 3) To hyphenate or not to hyphenate?
 * 4) Arabic translation

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 19


 * 1) in surprised disbelief
 * 2) lean back halfway
 * 3) Comma splice?
 * 4) Word Order

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 20


 * 1) one more question about "lean"
 * 2) Deutsche Physik
 * 3) The pegion is back.
 * 4) Inconsistencies in Sochi Cyrillizations
 * 5) How old is the Arabic language?
 * 6) "knight-rider"?
 * 7) What is the origin of the surname Soulodre and Lecuc?
 * 8) Origins of the surnames "Houdek" and "Vostrejs" and "Roshak" and "Gallenstein" and "Bethel"

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 21


 * 1) Фанера над Парижем
 * 2) resting his upper body on one straightened arm
 * 3) Central and peripheral cases
 * 4) Latin character names in Russian

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 22


 * 1) marry off
 * 2) Translate 2 words of Persian?
 * 3) Imperative forms

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 23


 * 1) throw out his chest upward
 * 2) We agreed for him to go there.
 * 3) the order of adjectives
 * 4) amiable
 * 5) Accents

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 24


 * 1) The bell was sounded for lights out.
 * 2) so saying & with that
 * 3) She met some classmates of ten years earlier.
 * 4) Is there a machine japanese translator?
 * 5) Ambiguous sentence?
 * 6) She introduced to us a few schools right off the reel.
 * 7) sth. is contracted out to sb.
 * 8) at/on the edge

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 25


 * 1) Multi-quote syntax
 * 2) Is ‘subtract’ strictly mathematical?
 * 3) deposit
 * 4) Hebrew translation help
 * 5) tumors on his lung lobes
 * 6) on the appointed day
 * 7) Her nose tingling, she was on the verge of tears.
 * 8) well-fed on the locals' chickens
 * 9) in the early morning & early in the morning
 * 10) a verb for "to smile with one's lips closed without showing his/her teeth"
 * 11) 17th-century portrait: Latin inscription
 * 12) What is the adjective of someone who speaks a lot and repeatedly about something ('harp on')
 * 13) quotations
 * 14) The belief that one country is superior to another

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 26


 * 1) Chinese names for foreign toponyms
 * 2) The name "Twart" as pronounced in England
 * 3) Chinese explanation
 * 4) Translate Star Lord to Chinese?
 * 5) KR in icelandic names

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 27


 * 1) Janowska
 * 2) Hyphens in compound adjectives composed solely of numbers
 * 3) Square brackets with quill

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 28


 * 1) She's a different person to me