Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2012

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 3


 * 1) Grammar help needed
 * 2) Words created by author?

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 5


 * 1) Grammar, spelling, syntax etc.
 * 2) silent final "e" only in English and French?
 * 3) Russian & Latin names

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 6


 * 1) Word or expression that originally meant literally what it said but no longer means literally what it says, but is still in use
 * 2) So many/much xyz, so little time !
 * 3) Please translate the following
 * 4) Japanese romanization
 * 5) Price with 3 letter currency

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 7


 * 1) Commander of ancient ships that aren't triremes
 * 2) Now then, Lord Arthur, who dragged whom around the walls of what?
 * 3) Latin case marking and subject/object ambiguity
 * 4) Italian phonotactics
 * 5) Oil-oc continuum?

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 8


 * 1) Address
 * 2) Circa

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 9


 * 1) French vowels
 * 2) "an ethnic group which ..."?
 * 3) The creator of the D'ni language

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 10


 * 1) The Bucket Lady's Dishy Vicar's Wife's Accent?
 * 2) Free Software suitable for making subsets from a wordlist?
 * 3) Japanese
 * 4) Gentile lettore, gentile lettrice,

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 11


 * 1) Marathi to English
 * 2) Question about new French spelling

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 12


 * 1) "British Rail is poised on the edge of a precipice."
 * 2) Is the Hymn to Liberty in Dimotiki or Katharevousa?

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 14


 * 1) The last word in ultraverbalism

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 15


 * 1) liberty, liberté, libertad, libertà
 * 2) Word
 * 3) Possesion with apostrophies.
 * 4) Hindi
 * 5) A Language Biased Toward Itself

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 16


 * 1) Why do kanji have several readings?
 * 2) Agent noun

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 18


 * 1) Another neologism please?
 * 2) word said in French
 * 3) male scent
 * 4) Languages of Luxembourg
 * 5) Chhandas(Poetic metres) in hindi
 * 6) Ainu names

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 19


 * 1) Use of Roman numerals in Japan
 * 2) Old Greek Ablative

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 20


 * 1) When did we stop putting full stops in initialisms?
 * 2) Shifting accents in Spanish? (hidalguía)
 * 3) deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning and ???
 * 4) very strange complete misspelling

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 21


 * 1) Faroese lyric translation?
 * 2) "The court requested the two sides to attempt to settle the matter."
 * 3) Name of Guinea-Bissau

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 22


 * 1) “I have refused 12 girls, 9 has refused me” In this phrase shouldn’t we use “9 have refused me”?
 * 2) Moon mentioned by Iran space agency page in Persian
 * 3) Quick question about peacock terms
 * 4) Shortest Words
 * 5) Yiddish

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 23


 * 1) Is 'denigrate' a racist word?
 * 2) Names of Honduras

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 24


 * 1) English word for a trip...

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 25


 * 1) Franconian dialect of bavarian german
 * 2) The psychic sidekick
 * 3) Translation and Meaning of Beija

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 26


 * 1) Debby
 * 2) George Bouhe
 * 3) Chinese - Super Hercules
 * 4) side tracked

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 27


 * 1) Chinese posthumous names
 * 2) triple crown in volleyball
 * 3) Name of this Italian sculptor's piece
 * 4) Catch-22s?

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 28


 * 1) Homework help! Please help me write without close paraphrasing.
 * 2) Furigana in newspapers (Japanese)
 * 3) Danish
 * 4) Junk Dealer
 * 5) Arabic translation  "to witness"

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 29


 * 1) 'Backwards' compound words
 * 2) Male/female language
 * 3) defense line
 * 4) "Mir ist heiß"
 * 5) I'm looking for a word...

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 30


 * 1) UV ?