Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2007

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 1


 * 1) Very Unique?
 * 2) English grammar: need confirmation before article edits
 * 3) Children's songs in unknown languages
 * 4) What is the English title for this story?

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 2


 * 1) Suggestions for the language ref desk
 * 2) Translation from Arabic to English of Tahrir-ol-vasyleh
 * 3) estúpido
 * 4) Mis-cegenation
 * 5) It is, is it?
 * 6) Abdoulaye Wade
 * 7) English r
 * 8) Translation
 * 9) Symbolism

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 3


 * 1) is this correct
 * 2) Malay translations
 * 3) Words for Food
 * 4) Language Samples
 * 5) How to pronounce
 * 6) Biosphere
 * 7) Most languages?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 4


 * 1) French translation needed
 * 2) Footnotes
 * 3) Arabic or muslim tanslation of Will (William)
 * 4) Japanese record cover
 * 5) back--not a preposition?
 * 6) why did the chicken cross the road?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 5


 * 1) Origin of "Ahoy!"
 * 2) What Is the Opposite of "Alter Ego"
 * 3) Hence, however.
 * 4) What is the name that the Chinese give porcelain?
 * 5) Measurements
 * 6) The Use of "Antithesis" in Other Languages
 * 7) What's the rule that...
 * 8) Arabic graffiti
 * 9) Aking about a phrase
 * 10) Historical use of the word 'natural' to mean 'illegitimate'

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 6


 * 1) Miles vs. kilometers
 * 2) Dropping of final e in Italian
 * 3) closed/close
 * 4) What's the verb/word?
 * 5) Derren Brown
 * 6) Which Dutch bookseller accepts credit cards?
 * 7) languages with the greatest number of words.

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 7


 * 1) how to speak english
 * 2) Jon English, and a dentist in Zagreb
 * 3) Esperanto - How hard to learn
 * 4) Comma's

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 8


 * 1) Literature
 * 2) rabic userpage
 * 3) Is a divorced uncle still an uncle?
 * 4) Coffee matters
 * 5) Learning Japanese

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 9


 * 1) What does Quebecois pronunciation mean??
 * 2) Ojibwe language for Manitoulin Island?
 * 3) Standard for writing out numbers
 * 4) german translation
 * 5) What's the "shiz-niggle?"
 * 6) Japanese questions
 * 7) Some help with a German word

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 10


 * 1) nglish sounds like. ..
 * 2) in too deep
 * 3) ranslate "Be all that you can be" into German
 * 4) Translating "pickles" into french
 * 5) Znüni

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 11


 * 1) Can you all help?
 * 2) Comma question
 * 3) Rasputin
 * 4) Breathless Whispy sort of sound

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 12


 * 1) Spear/Distaff or Paternal/Maternal?
 * 2) Children, Offspring, Infants, Issues, Progeny
 * 3) Serbian sign at a church
 * 4) Shakespeare past tense
 * 5) "at a loss" vs. "at loss"
 * 6) English to Latin Translation
 * 7) name this gesture
 * 8) Scottish 'sh'

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 13


 * 1) close and closed --- related?
 * 2) ten years old?

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 14


 * 1) emplate
 * 2) Russian Etymology - QUESTION re resources
 * 3) Publishing a fantasy novel
 * 4) OULINDECHEROUS
 * 5) List of English letters/phonetics
 * 6) Origin of the Slang word Grand
 * 7) translation for talk page
 * 8) Prestidigitation

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 15


 * 1) Pronouncing Hebrew words related to Hanukkah
 * 2) english to hebrew language
 * 3) Allegedly and similar adverbs
 * 4) Follow  up question on disjunct
 * 5) Using erzählen with von
 * 6) offer advice for/on/about...
 * 7) POSSESIVES 'S AND S'
 * 8) Spanish wiki
 * 9) Type O Negative
 * 10) Mssrs.
 * 11) What does the acronym 'Bebo' stand for
 * 12) Urine
 * 13) Arab for "prison"

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 16


 * 1) Categorical Assertion
 * 2) what language is this?
 * 3) missing words and mispronunciation
 * 4) Anglo-Saxon word formation
 * 5) Useage of IS/ARE
 * 6) Proverbs?
 * 7) Need help with Hebrew in a new article
 * 8) french schools

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 17


 * 1) Italics
 * 2) Help with Sentence Structure
 * 3) Hop Schwiz
 * 4) Who was Joseph M. Williams ?
 * 5) HELP with word "Advise"
 * 6) Music ID
 * 7) "at" or "with"

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 18


 * 1) Twelfth Night
 * 2) 'Prince' as 'ruler' in the 19th century
 * 3) apostrophe or not apostrophe... that is the question
 * 4) Eco-terrorism confusion
 * 5) Old Norse dialects--Old Swedish vs Old Danish
 * 6) spelling the word palatte

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 19


 * 1) Learning a second language online.
 * 2) Walter Dean Myers
 * 3) kashrut
 * 4) Americanism: "write you"

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 20


 * 1) Blood preposition
 * 2) job/name coincidence

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 21


 * 1) Counterintelligence

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 22


 * 1) Russian word "стрёмe"
 * 2) rench book title
 * 3) apitalization

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 23


 * 1) Translator Please!
 * 2) titles in a sentence
 * 3) Latin translation help
 * 4) Native modern Greek speaker needed: vocalisation of some consonants
 * 5) "Not half" in British slang
 * 6) ranslation of old photos
 * 7) Old Jokes
 * 8) a type of knowledge

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 24


 * 1) internet or Internet ?
 * 2) [wikt:however|However]]
 * 3) IS or ARE ?
 * 4) Chinese character identification.
 * 5) People from Colombia?
 * 6) "just kidding" figure of speech

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 25


 * 1) rench book titles again
 * 2) "Laughing Stock"
 * 3) Grammar question on spelling and then writing numbers
 * 4) default

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 26


 * 1) Hyphenated gerunds
 * 2) Aid'e Memoir or Aid d' Memoir?
 * 3) Surname sorting of names beginning with "de"
 * 4) Bokmal and Nynorsk (2)
 * 5) How long has it been done?

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 27


 * 1) Italian wiki article
 * 2) Figures of Speech

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 28


 * 1) Unknown Language
 * 2) Identification of kanji
 * 3) The" before foreign book title
 * 4) Cringworthy spelling
 * 5) Just curious...
 * 6) explicit and explicitly
 * 7) "memore of his ristrettezze"

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 29


 * 1) Asinine
 * 2) Farmers golf
 * 3) Facade(with a long a) or Facade(with a short a)
 * 4) uestion on aprostrofy's
 * 5) ering Strait pronunciation
 * 6) Two name pronounciation questions
 * 7) poem
 * 8) Information Lost in Time

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 30


 * 1) Naal
 * 2) If English has a hundred words for money...
 * 3) I can't read Dutch
 * 4) lbania
 * 5) What do you call this?

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 31


 * 1) Czech language
 * 2) Inherently unpleasant words?
 * 3) The english language is causing me headaches!
 * 4) Der Wörter?
 * 5) Caribbean
 * 6) Dedis
 * 7) French Translations
 * 8) Correct use of the word "that" in a sentence