Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2017

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 1


 * 1) Official list of official languages
 * 2) Spanish surname confirmation
 * 3) Yellow Sapphire
 * 4) What is a cercle?

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 2


 * 1) Special meaning of "league"

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 3


 * 1) English grammar question
 * 2) Literature: English/from England

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 4


 * 1) what accent/style is this?

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 5


 * 1) Professional Door Opener and other jobs

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 8


 * 1) mutual intelligibility of dutch and german
 * 2) Script or alphabet
 * 3) "four-wheels drive" vs "four-wheel drive".
 * 4) Fall in love, fall pregnant
 * 5) 'is a former restaurant' and 'awarded a star in 1998-2002'
 * 6) Grammar issue: use of approximate vs. approximately

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 9


 * 1) Name and position of a German woman on Birkenau camp staff
 * 2) Latin word for "square"
 * 3) On Stranger Tides
 * 4) The exact transcription for "quarter inch"

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 10


 * 1) Kazakh written in Arabic
 * 2) English understanding problem

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 11


 * 1) resynthesis of ordinal numbers

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 12


 * 1) German turnips

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 13


 * 1) Code words
 * 2) Polish Heavy Metal References

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 14


 * 1) Do you use italics or not?
 * 2) Root 'hild' in modern German
 * 3) alternate wording in Anne Frank diary

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 15


 * 1) 'is a former restaurant' and 'awarded a star in 1998-2002'
 * 2) Meaning of Spanish "birrodado"?
 * 3) Is this verb singular or plural?

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 18


 * 1) Hebrew pronunciation
 * 2) Meaning of "Auslander Bonzen raus"

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 20


 * 1) Ambiguity in "everything is $1" joke
 * 2) Chinese reader wanted

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 21


 * 1) Latin help, school motto
 * 2) Appropriate comma use and terminology disambiguation

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 22


 * 1) Second person narratives

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 23


 * 1) Placement of the adverb "not"

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 24


 * 1) Vietnamese IPA phonetics
 * 2) Spanish demonym for people from Wales and Gaels

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 25


 * 1) 㞎㞎, 屎, 粪, dung, poop, feces, shit, excrement, doo-doo, poo-poo, manure
 * 2) Translation Request - for article on French cartoonist

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 27


 * 1) And also
 * 2) Britons abroad
 * 3) Yiddish abbreviations?
 * 4) German to English translations

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 28


 * 1) Foster homes, orphanages, poorhouses, workhouses, and almshouses
 * 2) Judeo-Arabic payment orders
 * 3) Being told that I speak with a Canadian accent

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 29


 * 1) "Kicking the bucket" as an NPI
 * 2) "he says he don't" / "he says he doesn't"

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 30


 * 1) Phrasing in the case of restaurants that have ceased to exist
 * 2) "Dating"

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 July 31


 * 1) Figures
 * 2) "Who was it done by?" VS. "By whom was it done?"