Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2017

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 1


 * 1) Claudit semper fenestram antequam cenat
 * 2) Guitbass
 * 3) Why do Canadians sound like Americans?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 2


 * 1) Sweet Dreams are made of...?
 * 2) Resources for writing style

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 4


 * 1) Why is there a city called Nyala in Sudan
 * 2) Explain a joke
 * 3) Malay phrase "sikit sikit lama lama jadi bukit"
 * 4) Why website not English version but company and product names still in English?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 5


 * 1) Possible Murray-Merry and Kerry-Curry merger or reversal
 * 2) Rat-arsed
 * 3) How can IPA represent general nasalization?
 * 4) Short translation

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 6


 * 1) Crocide
 * 2) asshole

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 7


 * 1) Adjective to describe event that didn't happen
 * 2) Italian proficiency certificate
 * 3) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
 * 4) Cyrillic translation please

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 8


 * 1) "Équitable et transparente"
 * 2) Are both sentences right?
 * 3) Korean surnames

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 9


 * 1) why is Greece not named Hellas in English?
 * 2) de question is...
 * 3) PRC's "Outstanding Domestic Animated Series" this (or past) quarter
 * 4) Br English "ageing"

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 12


 * 1) Zhang Mi 張泌/张泌

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 13


 * 1) Handwriting
 * 2) How do I officially get a word changed?

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 14


 * 1) "It"
 * 2) Min Chinese possibly?
 * 3) Feeling blue
 * 4) Turning old w into modern v
 * 5) Longest English word
 * 6) What is "pay in black"?

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 15


 * 1) Deceased person's name in red
 * 2) "Yea, buns, and buns, and buns!"
 * 3) Narrowing as a verb?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 16


 * 1) The "day" part of Chinese dates
 * 2) Word that did sounds like swout and means hinder

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 17


 * 1) Wheel war
 * 2) Traditional vs simplified Chinese?
 * 3) Macrofamily

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 18


 * 1) Mayors of Yazd
 * 2) Language in signs: Cyrillic Mongolian or Russian?
 * 3) English usage question...
 * 4) Name for non-face cards in a deck

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 19


 * 1) Hamadan Terminal

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 20


 * 1) How did “like” change from a noun meaning “body” to the modern verb?
 * 2) Finger thing

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 21


 * 1) How did British and American English come to differ?
 * 2) Bad Man
 * 3) All said and done

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 23


 * 1) Another Term for Strategic Thinker
 * 2) Are people illiterate if their native language does not have a written form?

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 24


 * 1) Written varieties of Chinese
 * 2) Youku video menu
 * 3) Sometimes They Come Back: sea and sunsets
 * 4) semantic primes

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 25


 * 1) "Da mache ich nicht mit!"
 * 2) Ambonese - Amboyna

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 27


 * 1) fried hardware
 * 2) Evgeny or Yevgeny?

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 28


 * 1) United States of America(n) Armed Forces
 * 2) Diocese and its plural
 * 3) the blue yonder
 * 4) Does "far" mean "falling"?
 * 5) Rephrase