Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2012

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 1


 * 1) Longest
 * 2) V vs. W
 * 3) Advice on Irish vs. Welsh

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 2


 * 1) "based on" or "based upon"
 * 2) last name etymology
 * 3) "Potential risks"
 * 4) metrification

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 3


 * 1) What is "muhziriabolah"?

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 4


 * 1) Regrettedest
 * 2) Many of who and many of whom

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 5


 * 1) president on down
 * 2) Japanese word
 * 3) Vibhishana
 * 4) Is there a term for the distinction between these uses of nouns?

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 6


 * 1) Meaning of "vail" given to a servant
 * 2) Create, sanctify, ordain and so on
 * 3) Is Modern Hebrew ה voiced or voiceless?
 * 4) French number names

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 7


 * 1) Chichester
 * 2) Literary element?
 * 3) Creative writing/poetry
 * 4) Short Latin translation needed
 * 5) Hungarian
 * 6) Latin Translation
 * 7) What;s the word for ...

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 8


 * 1) Feminine form of "Archon"?
 * 2) Can someone summarize this page?
 * 3) Otaheitian
 * 4) Why do some people add an "intrusive" /l/ (L) sound when...
 * 5) Augustine

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 9


 * 1) Chinese (I suppose) ideogram
 * 2) Chic emporium?
 * 3) Terms derived from Hebrew

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 10


 * 1) Three Brothers
 * 2) "Laid on the ground" or "lied on the ground"
 * 3) 2000 and up
 * 4) Translate Chinese sign

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 11


 * 1) Chinese
 * 2) Reference for Greek vs Aramaic as original language of New Testament

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 12


 * 1) English "on me" construction-- two questions
 * 2) "Olympic Games" (grammatical number)
 * 3) Verb Tense

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 13


 * 1) Valuable vs. Invaluable

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 14


 * 1) jump the fence & leave a gap in the air
 * 2) Arabic help requested
 * 3) Sanskrit pronunciation

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 15


 * 1) Xanthias
 * 2) Goyan
 * 3) What's the bad guy saying in Tagalog in this video?
 * 4) Teenager
 * 5) Pronunciation of "Fazer"
 * 6) Shape of Persian/Arabic number ۵ (five)

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 16


 * 1) Chinese Characters
 * 2) "Jaam"
 * 3) What does this mean? (Serbo-Croatian, I think)

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 17


 * 1) Is the "schwa" completely absent from Jamaican English
 * 2) Margareta Hasbjörnsdatter
 * 3) Klingon question

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 18


 * 1) Secret Policeman's Ball
 * 2) Surname HIEGER / HIGER (jewish background)
 * 3) Suicide Bridge by Ian Sinclair
 * 4) Chinese social dancing
 * 5) Largest alphabet

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 19


 * 1) Why do some men lisp
 * 2) correct form
 * 3) Why do Europeans speak American so poorly?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 20


 * 1) Russian
 * 2) beside or around?
 * 3) Song lyrics in Zulu: syllable division?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 21


 * 1) Translate Arabic(?)

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 22


 * 1) Which is a mathematical term (geometry): period, stage, section, phase.
 * 2) Spänn/spenn

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 23


 * 1) Kanji for placenames
 * 2) "Swear marks"
 * 3) DELIVRANCE
 * 4) good subtitled German films and television programmes
 * 5) The word "paraphrase"

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 24


 * 1) Connecting the unconnectable
 * 2) Spanish translation
 * 3) expression about Great Inventions
 * 4) Correct sentence
 * 5) Italian after French - what to concentrate on
 * 6) French poem translation
 * 7) Six questions left in french
 * 8) Have an Arabic speaker translate this Qadafi capture video

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 25


 * 1) Dustman's hat
 * 2) tʃ and ʨ
 * 3) Help discussing with another user in Turkish
 * 4) Anabolic effect
 * 5) Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 26


 * 1) Vowels/Consonants at the End of Many Female/Male Names
 * 2) Suicide Bridge by Ian Sinclair
 * 3) Street mouth?
 * 4) Magpies (fear of)
 * 5) Help in writing an article
 * 6) Looking for a Word for a Definition
 * 7) Uyghur pronunciation

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 27


 * 1) French audio translation
 * 2) German infinitive noun declension
 * 3) Have an Arabic speaker translate this Qadafi capture video
 * 4) Ireland town
 * 5) Most useful foreign language

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 28


 * 1) Check my grammar?
 * 2) Pronunciation in Slavic languages
 * 3) paunch

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 29


 * 1) "Al mismo tiempo, resolvía las solicitudes de nuevas autorizaciones de tebeos."
 * 2) Opening ceremonies?
 * 3) Egyptian and French

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 30


 * 1) Books in the orginal (British) English
 * 2) Can anyone offer a translation or better, transcription, of the song Tajabone by Ismaël Lô?
 * 3) Boy and girl in Hawaiian?

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 31


 * 1) John Locke
 * 2) Did the words "eye" and "symmetry" once rhyme?
 * 3) Use of Pirate in English, versus its use in Spanish as an insult
 * 4) Singing in Mandarin