Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2017

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 1


 * 1) "too" vs "so"
 * 2) Why does /ð/ not appear at the start of content words in English?
 * 3) Parliament Hill
 * 4) Do native Chinese speakers, studying English, have difficulty in phonetically distinguishing between sieging and searing ?
 * 5) Offhand

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 2


 * 1) Penalty called "manner something"
 * 2) Un - Turkish?
 * 3) .apk

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 3


 * 1) Simple present tense for constant actions?
 * 2) Arabic chemistry and physics

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 4


 * 1) Bantu noun classes
 * 2) ܬܪܓܨܝ ܫܘܒܝܝܐ
 * 3) Is the following clumsy sentence grammatically correct?
 * 4) If in the UK the Indian and Pakistanis are Asian

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 5


 * 1) Greek "agou"
 * 2) Use of Latin and written Chinese in various societies
 * 3) The word for "Christian"
 * 4) Phonemic ae-tensing; can (container) versus can (modal verb)
 * 5) How to quote this incomplete sentence?

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 6


 * 1) Translation of 18th-century Hell Scroll inscription
 * 2) Use of gerunds and possessives
 * 3) "reduce" antonyms
 * 4) Need help with grammar terminology
 * 5) Surname Y'Blood
 * 6) "etwas eiskalt / knallhart durchziehen"

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 7


 * 1) Is there a context in which "check out" cannot be replaced by "check" without necessarily changing the meaning?
 * 2) Traditional methods
 * 3) When did the meaning of corn shift to maize in American English?
 * 4) "He appears to be lying" - Is the infinitive phrase functioning as an adjective or adverb?

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 8


 * 1) duhui in taiwanese mandarin

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 10


 * 1) Multi-language or intermediate puns
 * 2) Both side of a body, of a human being
 * 3) Hempl's theory on Z

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 11


 * 1) Tagalog translation please
 * 2) Animal terms that mean insults
 * 3) bačičobi

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 12


 * 1) antonyms of "return"
 * 2) "If you do he will do", VS. "If you will do he will do"

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 13


 * 1) Persian pronunciation question
 * 2) Japanese cat
 * 3) German Adverbial Conectors/Prepositions
 * 4) Woe is me

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 14


 * 1) ringworm

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 15


 * 1) Are the words Muspell, Muspiell, Musburg, and Musbury related?
 * 2) Which vs. that

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 16


 * 1) antonyms
 * 2) Louis Pierre Vossion
 * 3) "centralized" antonym
 * 4) Pronunciation of "eighth"

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 18


 * 1) "pendejera" (Venezuelan slang?)
 * 2) German translation of a Kennedy quote

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 19


 * 1) Job descriptions
 * 2) Translation from Arabic - 'sabih'
 * 3) Danish or Norwegian?
 * 4) what's the rule?
 * 5) How to pronounce the word "Jesuism"

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 20


 * 1) "Spare oneself sth"

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 21


 * 1) Translation from German needed
 * 2) German–American-English online dictionary?

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 22


 * 1) V NP = V P NP
 * 2) Gilding the lily
 * 3) Turning stops into fricatives

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 23


 * 1) "sports fielded"?

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 24


 * 1) Equivalent for German adverbial ordinal numbers
 * 2) A Navy report...
 * 3) antonym of "cogent"
 * 4) Why is the name form kept while the meaning is not translated?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 26


 * 1) Dinner set or something

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 27


 * 1) Spanish "veredero"

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 28


 * 1) Plurals of -ooth words

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 29


 * 1) English ths
 * 2) Sea-locked
 * 3) Latin: anima and mens

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 30


 * 1) Semantic relation
 * 2) Little Englanders
 * 3) Farsi or Persian
 * 4) Piece of work
 * 5) ' and " for non-quotes