Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2013

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 1


 * 1) Signature
 * 2) stately homes - tall tower from which to enjoy the landscape
 * 3) Russian translation

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 3


 * 1) 101
 * 2) Need ref showing term cholo used as an insult in English
 * 3) Given names (male from female)
 * 4) preposition problem
 * 5) Verein für Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen im Ausland
 * 6) Ȑȑ

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 4


 * 1) What does the Chinese character 萱 mean?
 * 2) Dragonfly watcher
 * 3) Languages - written
 * 4) Translation of "Мёртвая зыбь" ?
 * 5) Request for Korean translation

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 5


 * 1) Singular or plural verb
 * 2) Ending sentence on an exclamation mark
 * 3) How to say this in English and German
 * 4) Middle English

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 6


 * 1) Terdoslavich

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 7


 * 1) Japanese names, Chinese names and Korean names
 * 2) So called (as in the Kennett curse)
 * 3) patron vs. matron
 * 4) Origin of the Phrase: "to have reservations about"
 * 5) Oaths and minced oaths, not oats and minced oats

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 8


 * 1) Is Ian McShane rhotic?
 * 2) What is the Japanese in the sentence?

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 9


 * 1) Books entirely in IPA
 * 2) apparition vs. appearance
 * 3) IPA questions
 * 4) verb conjugation?
 * 5) /ʌ/ for the English Northerners
 * 6) Help with a French translation

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 10


 * 1) Arabic help: Bayan School
 * 2) Urgent Russian translation needed
 * 3) Aluminium

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 11


 * 1) Persian help and Arabic help: Titles of HISD documents
 * 2) Translating Japanese
 * 3) a Latin neologism please
 * 4) Word etymology
 * 5) take life by the hand

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 12


 * 1) "SDB", what is it
 * 2) Ancient English accent
 * 3) Whatever and Whatsoever

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 13


 * 1) Correct usage of the word "why" in a sentence?

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 14


 * 1) "At the museum" or "in the museum"?
 * 2) Arabic title question
 * 3) Correct English nomenclature for land forces of the Third Reich?
 * 4) pronunciation question
 * 5) Pimsleur manual for Conversational and Basic French CDS

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 15


 * 1) Which one is grammatically correct?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 16


 * 1) Dr. Livesey (character)
 * 2) Consecutive prepositions

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 17


 * 1) Latin translation

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 18


 * 1) the phrase "from safety point of view"
 * 2) Horticulture for edibles only
 * 3) Recognizing foreign accents in writing
 * 4) greek
 * 5) Chinese sentence containing multiple inflections of one word

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 19


 * 1) Queſtion
 * 2) "The" before ordinal number
 * 3) Tubes of posters, rolls of posters

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 20


 * 1) Arabic help
 * 2) Help with a Chinese line I can't understand
 * 3) Translating Latin song lines
 * 4) Old Pet Peeve

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 21


 * 1) I need a Dutch (or Afrikaans) speaker!
 * 2) Flashlight

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 22


 * 1) Estonian vs. Finnish
 * 2) Synopsis, summary, and plot?
 * 3) What is the oldest language in the world which is alive and still spoken by peoples??

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 23


 * 1) Predictive model for language differentiation?
 * 2) S(h)bnai Israel?

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 24


 * 1) Rio Grande de la Costa
 * 2) Modern Standard Arabic pronunciation of Ali Al-Naimi
 * 3) How to say this in Japanese?
 * 4) That person is such a *pill*

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 25


 * 1) Napoleon quotation
 * 2) Feminine version of Muhammad
 * 3) IPA for pronunciation of 'polymer'
 * 4) Describing all-knowing eyes, full of wisdom
 * 5) Goal

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 26


 * 1) Petre Mihai Bănărescu o Petru Mihai Bănărescu?
 * 2) Abbottsford
 * 3) Identify English accent.

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 27


 * 1) Problem with Ancient Greek.
 * 2) Query validity of word knowns

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 28


 * 1) Miriam Margolyes

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 29


 * 1) How, then!
 * 2) Being an alien
 * 3) Question about Chinese characters
 * 4) How to say this in Georgian?
 * 5) Brunei

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 30


 * 1) Pronunciation of Iphigenia
 * 2) Irish-German translation
 * 3) 厉害 request for positive translation of phrase
 * 4) うわべ (Japanese)
 * 5) Japanese and Chinese names
 * 6) Hissa Hilal early poetry books (Arabic)
 * 7) What is the Arabic in this picture? (Rotana Jet)
 * 8) Arabic article - where does it originate?

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 July 31


 * 1) tug one's remaining bit of hair out
 * 2) More accurate English translation of Latin inscription