Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/March 2010

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 1


 * 1) Gaba, the company
 * 2) Any Kurdish speakers here?
 * 3) Japanese
 * 4) Lokavibhaga
 * 5) Ctrl+F
 * 6) Aggressive Roller Skating
 * 7) Lingua franca of 10th century Al-Andalus?

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 2


 * 1) Native American accent
 * 2) French Translation
 * 3) Cursing
 * 4) What's the word for this identification scheme?
 * 5) "S" sound between S and SH used by some English speakers

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 3


 * 1) Pluralization
 * 2) Russian Runes
 * 3) how offensive is the word "Paki" in UK compared to "nigger" in USA?
 * 4) "how to use ..." in Chinese
 * 5) Wikipedias
 * 6) Between a rock and a hard place
 * 7) Hitler ranting about Wikipedia?
 * 8) The Indian equivalent of the Phillipine kalahig
 * 9) Polish song lyric
 * 10) Pronunciation of "Kiehl's"
 * 11) Foul
 * 12) Translate
 * 13) Hollyburn
 * 14) The god of death looks fierce and dark like a heap of eyewash?
 * 15) First Word

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 4


 * 1) Italian speaker needed to help find book
 * 2) borrowed words
 * 3) Sinhalese
 * 4) Ken Loach's films
 * 5) American language in the 1930s
 * 6) Premiere/premier
 * 7) Ellipt.

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 5


 * 1) The land of our ancestors
 * 2) hors-cadre
 * 3) Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
 * 4) Universal Words
 * 5) Verb
 * 6) Abbrevation

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 6


 * 1) Abbreviation (2)
 * 2) What
 * 3) Most words
 * 4) Know all men by these presents
 * 5) Dangling modifier: ambiguous?
 * 6) Logo

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 7


 * 1) I Hear
 * 2) Nuclear dummy?
 * 3) Changing Language
 * 4) "Va', pensiero" or "Va, pensiero"?
 * 5) Moroccan Arabic lyrics
 * 6) Altnordisch/Altisländisch
 * 7) vt?
 * 8) Procuratorates

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 8


 * 1) ISO Code For The Manchu Alphabet
 * 2) Copy vs. Over vs. Wilco
 * 3) Ah- kuk kuk kuk-kuk kuk-kuk.
 * 4) Pirates Who Smoke?
 * 5) Schutzstaffel
 * 6) Differences between I like singing AND I like to sing ?
 * 7) Diazecloxmelofluroclizfpidizvralcoxibivir-CR and other pharmaco-nominative monstrosities
 * 8) Sussex, Essex, Wessex, etc
 * 9) In order
 * 10) Decorative Typographical Symbol

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 9


 * 1) Reforms of Russian orthography
 * 2) sbd.
 * 3) Uhry/Uhersho vs. Maďarsko
 * 4) Gulch of Terror
 * 5) Difference Between Aggressive Skates And Inline Skates
 * 6) fixed
 * 7) Cotton
 * 8) C20th.
 * 9) Linguistics - Th Sound -> F Sound
 * 10) Harry Potter-ish thing translated to Latin
 * 11) Phrase in German
 * 12) Japanese question
 * 13) I need some help with Hebrew please
 * 14) Death's head - what?

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 10


 * 1) Online Dictionary
 * 2) Congo
 * 3) Four different pen names

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 11


 * 1) Catholic and Katholic
 * 2) What was the meaning of the word "amend" when the US Constitution was written
 * 3) Pronunciation of Allegheny
 * 4) Nightmare!
 * 5) What's a wittle?
 * 6) Slavic equals slave?

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 12


 * 1) Hung or hanged?
 * 2) Can't be arsed
 * 3) Translate poster
 * 4) Greek letter that looks like an "L"?
 * 5) "Leave on the computer"-- ungrammatical or just odd?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 13


 * 1) is it possible to give most male readers an erection with 20 English words?
 * 2) A word that denotes the concept of incorrectly claiming (illegal) discrimination
 * 3) Comparative in English
 * 4) Italianate
 * 5) PIGS

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 14


 * 1) r̝̊
 * 2) what are the synonyms for "encasement"?
 * 3) Wnd
 * 4) "KN RBL YMB" in summary
 * 5) Not?
 * 6) Tamil அராலி (Araly?) and Tamil யாழ்ப்பாண நகரம் (Jaffna)
 * 7) One of the only

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 15


 * 1) "Xynthia" (origin and meaning)
 * 2) Book recommendations
 * 3) IIe
 * 4) Polish: monity
 * 5) Caption, editorial cartoon from Nazi-occupied Serbia
 * 6) practice vs work
 * 7) Sapir-Whorf and Orwell
 * 8) Foreign language names of school districts

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 16


 * 1) “T kofschip”-rule (Dutch grammar)
 * 2) Period and quotes
 * 3) Russian Cyrillic
 * 4) can you be very good at reading and writing a language
 * 5) What the hell?!?!
 * 6) "Te voy a llevar a﻿ un pinche vaile!"
 * 7) Living in Grand Central Station
 * 8) What Wikipedia projects have well-established standards for language-specific transliteration?

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 17


 * 1) Mortar
 * 2) Grandad
 * 3) Defining a term/phrase
 * 4) French pronunciation
 * 5) Gaelic language
 * 6) Autist
 * 7) Ruthenian

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 18


 * 1) Cross-Purposes
 * 2) acb
 * 3) Charles The Fat
 * 4) Etymology
 * 5) "dirty laundry"
 * 6) 2 queries
 * 7) 的， 地， and 得

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 19


 * 1) Did or do
 * 2) 'Recruitment'
 * 3) Storensay
 * 4) Kiss And Tell
 * 5) Words "than" and "then"
 * 6) Latin or Italian names??
 * 7) Curru
 * 8) Prussiate

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 20


 * 1) Decimal numbers in French
 * 2) "Hello, who is it?"
 * 3) How do you pronounce Zdzislaw Beksinski?
 * 4) Dash versus semi-colon
 * 5) Crazy transliterations at Contraction_(grammar)#Chinese

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 21


 * 1) &c.
 * 2) Resources for listening to Chinese
 * 3) What's the word for...

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 22


 * 1) Name suffixes
 * 2) Vowels in English, French, and German
 * 3) Sacred Seventeen
 * 4) Kataab Ashbal Al Islam Al Salafi
 * 5) Latin to English translation

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 23


 * 1) Etymology of "broke"
 * 2) Forcefully, forcibly
 * 3) Lies
 * 4) Bengali, What does "Da" after a name signify
 * 5) Holla?
 * 6) Arabic/asian(?) symbol on back of $10 bill USD

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 24


 * 1) footnotes and punctuation
 * 2) Is sometime redundant here?
 * 3) Vowel trapezium and the Bark scale
 * 4) economically and financially active
 * 5) Delight, opposite of de-light
 * 6) Etymology of shar, tsar etc.

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 25


 * 1) what is this study called ?
 * 2) Was I on an "internship" or a "placement"?
 * 3) "Be Prepared" in Latin
 * 4) Is "If I would be rich I would buy a car." correct  ?

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 26


 * 1) Accent question
 * 2) Spanish translation question
 * 3) United States Census 2010 slogan
 * 4) Statements which mean their opposite
 * 5) бакалжан
 * 6) Japanese characters

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 27


 * 1) April fools help required.
 * 2) Reading a poem in New Yorker
 * 3) Letter
 * 4) Derivation of term

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 28


 * 1) Does anyone know the meaning of ....
 * 2) Russian newspaper published in the UK
 * 3) Robespierre (Or the "Incorruptable")
 * 4) Swedish island toponyms
 * 5) Word for being taken in by your own phony image
 * 6) Rold?
 * 7) Japanese Onomatopœia
 * 8) Opposite of Empowerment
 * 9) Calling your dog by your kid's name

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 29


 * 1) Could you please remind me...
 * 2) English word for (normal) pigment spots on skin
 * 3) Angry FAce
 * 4) Films 'shot on location in'...
 * 5) Texts in German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese with mouse-over pop-ups featuring translation or grammatical information
 * 6) Passivization
 * 7) Illustrious 14 Romans
 * 8) Order of words in English sentences

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 30


 * 1) Goal, aim
 * 2) Coteries
 * 3) Definition
 * 4) Must and can

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 31


 * 1) British English?
 * 2) Translation from Guadeloupe Creole to English
 * 3) French
 * 4) Usage of definite article with noun
 * 5) Column-row order
 * 6) Fissioning / Fissionable linguistically correct?