Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2007

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 1


 * 1) Stetler or Hostetler
 * 2) Shakalaka
 * 3) Easiest languages to learn?
 * 4) 'slinger
 * 5) Cyclopedia -vs- Encyclopedia
 * 6)  "duck-down jacket"
 * 7) What does "crown 8vo" mean?
 * 8) Silly Q

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 2


 * 1) A quick lesson in grammar
 * 2) Bringardner and Baumgartner?
 * 3) known and unknown
 * 4) German to English
 * 5) alf as cheap

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 3


 * 1) Derivation or Etymology
 * 2) "Full of action"
 * 3) Definitions: "agalma" and "plotin"
 * 4) Place names etymologies in England
 * 5) What do these Irish words mean?
 * 6) Second

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 4


 * 1) man listening to disc
 * 2) I Carré about the spelling
 * 3) Latin Harry Potter translation
 * 4) military pronunciation of cache

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 5


 * 1) anja Document.
 * 2) Language choice
 * 3) Translation from English
 * 4) WTF in Chinese

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 6


 * 1) Grammar, what sharp teeth you have
 * 2) Further or farther a field or afield
 * 3) Products becoming common names.
 * 4) What was this edit meant to say?
 * 5) Word that means......

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 7


 * 1) Weird incident
 * 2) Learning Hanzi/Kanji
 * 3) suffixies
 * 4) Correct spelling or word use
 * 5) The Date
 * 6) from Pride and Prejudice

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 8


 * 1) negative words
 * 2) "Try and"
 * 3) Translation from German
 * 4) Derivation
 * 5) IPA n

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 9


 * 1) "Maria's motorcycle helmet"
 * 2) "-i" in feminine names
 * 3) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
 * 4) Ling: Female given name only?
 * 5) German-to-English translation request
 * 6) erman genders and plurals
 * 7) Spanish double negation
 * 8) Haiku Rules

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 10


 * 1) Unicode Question
 * 2) do they speak english?
 * 3) formal and informal english
 * 4) Japanese translation needed, thank you!

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 11


 * 1) Euphemisms for "diarrhea sickness"
 * 2) hello (foreign)
 * 3) Learning a foreign language.

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 12


 * 1) "Motion lines"
 * 2) Writing a speech - valedictorian
 * 3) "heathen" vs. "pagan"
 * 4) languAge and dreams?
 * 5) /æ/ in katakana

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 13


 * 1) anji
 * 2) Whose
 * 3) Phonetics and phonology of English and ...
 * 4) proper use of the word riparius?!
 * 5) Arabic translation
 * 6) opyedit

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 14


 * 1) Gramatically Correct
 * 2) Japanese title usage
 * 3) Language Speciation
 * 4) Is this correct English?
 * 5) Frau Doktor
 * 6) "Only God Can Judge Me" in French
 * 7) Capitalization
 * 8) Stress patterns in Slavic languages

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 15


 * 1) The difference between "should" and "ought to"
 * 2) puke
 * 3) linguistics
 * 4) Question about capitalization

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 16


 * 1) GOOD NOON
 * 2) Strange word orders
 * 3) Looking for a quote
 * 4) Edgar Allan Poe
 * 5) Latin Translation, Please

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 17


 * 1) erb tense
 * 2) eaning of "Francois c'est pas flashe non deux"
 * 3) Martial arts terminology
 * 4) English dialects used in drama

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 18


 * 1) se of "And" in the beginning of a sentence
 * 2) deosyncratic orthography at St. Nicholas Magazine
 * 3) The Cockroach by Kevin Halligan
 * 4) Cadence for marching prisoners, in German, ca. WWII
 * 5) Latin translation needed - please.
 * 6) unctuation
 * 7) Unnamed Short Story

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 19


 * 1) Most readable writing system
 * 2) How to read "router"?
 * 3) Farging
 * 4) World War II related sentence
 * 5) Word ending in ....advert
 * 6) Hindi(?) translation:

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 20


 * 1) Abdul Rehman Al-Sudais
 * 2) Definition
 * 3) orry if this is a stupid/oft asked question
 * 4) Adverb with quantifier?
 * 5) What to link in a Reference

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 21


 * 1) "Hesher" definitions gone--what happened to them?
 * 2) Regular allophonic pair in English
 * 3) Lick ...
 * 4) That's too bad/What a shame
 * 5) Identifing an accent
 * 6) Names of Latin letters in Greek language
 * 7) What does "walk-down" mean?
 * 8) What's a motto with you?

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 22


 * 1) Correct third-person past tense of scream
 * 2) what is the meaning of "how about a hand for Harry"
 * 3) anged versus Hung
 * 4) ay/December Marriage
 * 5) help with a printing term?
 * 6) Technical Term for Italicized Thougts in Literature
 * 7) Etymology

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 23


 * 1) "Rapier" in Hindi
 * 2) Are there any words in Nepali that sound like...
 * 3) copyedit or copy-edit or copy edit?
 * 4) Guantánamo Bay
 * 5) Machiavelli & Exclamation marks

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 24


 * 1) Deleted entry
 * 2) Word for glove maker?
 * 3) Mingler
 * 4) Using Wikipedia
 * 5) resent Perfect Tense used for distant past events

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 25


 * 1) If 'photo' means light in some language (greek?), what is that language's word for darkness?
 * 2) I've got a preposition for you...
 * 3) Spanish translation
 * 4) riple s in geographical names
 * 5) Toward vs towards
 * 6) a/an FAQ
 * 7) French etymological dictionary
 * 8) Tones in Mandarin Songs

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 26


 * 1) Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
 * 2) Which
 * 3) Trait
 * 4) Anglo-Saxon equivalent of loanwords

= June 27 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 27
 * 1) Tacitus quote spelling
 * 2) Meaning of these lyrics?
 * 3) Norwegian Continuum
 * 4) what is the english equivalent of the name Diego?
 * 5) What's the symbol "L" mean?
 * 6) Is this correct?
 * 7) Hitler was a vegetarian
 * 8) Life is unfair.

= June 28 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 28
 * 1) Kalantaryan

= June 29 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 29
 * 1) Anyone know some good Welshisms?
 * 2) Quote
 * 3) Chinese? Rock inscription
 * 4) Something detoriating
 * 5) grammar
 * 6) 7-0 or seven-o: a Secret Service code?

= June 30 = Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 30
 * 1) Learning Received Pronunciation
 * 2) Birds of the Anatomy
 * 3) Provincial tenses
 * 4) Ancient Greek question
 * 5) Cigarette slang