Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2009

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 1


 * 1) Help with English grammar
 * 2) What's this kind of bag called in English?
 * 3) As it were

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 2


 * 1) Mac and Mc surnames
 * 2) Crocodile wife
 * 3) Book Titles
 * 4) Comparatives and Superlatives question
 * 5) Chinese Song
 * 6) Chinese word into English letters by pronunciation

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 3


 * 1) What is cardex or kardex?
 * 2) Foreign "u" in French

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 4


 * 1) Rather
 * 2) Italian translation
 * 3) name in different languages
 * 4) Without wheels?
 * 5) Phonetics

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 5


 * 1) Insulation
 * 2) Taliban and Taleban
 * 3) German word order
 * 4) Song by Aerenda
 * 5) Animal sounds
 * 6) Language recognition by lip-reading
 * 7) Language acquisition by heart transplant
 * 8) "For" or "to."

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 6


 * 1) Dutchman in beer commercial
 * 2) malay name
 * 3) "Enabling x to do something" - is x subject or object?
 * 4) Double comparatives
 * 5) Uneffective
 * 6) Brown sauce
 * 7) Masters thesis vs Master's thesis

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 7


 * 1) Ordering someone or stating a preference?
 * 2) Opposite of a word in context
 * 3) "by" or "at"?
 * 4) Bureaucracy
 * 5) Identify the humor?
 * 6) What's the occasion?
 * 7) Question on "Huzzah!"
 * 8) "Nice from you" or "nice of you"
 * 9) 中国经济昆虫志

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 8


 * 1) Type of Phobia
 * 2) Space or not?
 * 3) Hindi and Rajasthani

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 9


 * 1) Suffix "up"
 * 2) Origin of the word "feedback"
 * 3) aneka in Sanskrit
 * 4) Expressing possession
 * 5) classic example

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 10


 * 1) Commonwealth Essay Competition
 * 2) Chinese text request

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 11


 * 1) How did a Wildebeest come to be called a 'Wildebeest'?
 * 2) spanish translation
 * 3) Genome
 * 4) Hindi and Tamil Translation
 * 5) misplaced comma
 * 6) "Secede" as transitive verb
 * 7) "PAFE" ... WTF?
 * 8) What are the benefits of using tree structures in linguistic communications?
 * 9) Name of a grammatical structure
 * 10) Abbreviation of "I have not"

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 12


 * 1) Queensland
 * 2) French "quelle"
 * 3) Translation of 'non sequitur'
 * 4) Nomenclature query for weaponry buffs
 * 5) Operetta empire
 * 6) French Translations:7
 * 7) The Chinese word "zhai" in Chinese characters
 * 8) Foreign translations of It's Morphin Time!

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 13


 * 1) Atreyu
 * 2) Are traditional British vulgar terms being replaced with Americanisms?
 * 3) Define irony
 * 4) Voiceless uvular trill
 * 5) Harry Potter

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 14


 * 1) Latin for 151st
 * 2) Pontificate
 * 3) Great Balls of Fire
 * 4) Source in Traditional Chinese
 * 5) English "legalese" meaning of assign
 * 6) "Rubbing alcohol"
 * 7) "A" versus "an" when preceding a parenthetical phrase
 * 8) Gaetano
 * 9) Pronunciation: Names/Places ending on "-sham"
 * 10) Large, big, or...?
 * 11) Dream
 * 12) Welcome in French

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 15


 * 1) "The weak perish first" in Latin
 * 2) Iberian Levant
 * 3) Is "at least one of them" singular or plural?
 * 4) American Spanish Accents, Learning and Podcasts

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 16


 * 1) A job catching moles
 * 2) Kanji
 * 3) German help
 * 4) A job catching moles (animals)
 * 5) Evolution of German?
 * 6) Billiars

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 17


 * 1) Arabic translators in Dubai?
 * 2) Mixed numbers
 * 3) Latin - English translation
 * 4) Formatting rules for lyrics
 * 5) Speech scroll
 * 6) Trainee Customer / Sales Executive
 * 7) Green Alka-net or Green Alkan-et?
 * 8) Greek translation
 * 9) Sense of "world without end", Anglican liturgy
 * 10) The use of 'may' and 'might' in this sentence

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 18


 * 1) Gender in languages
 * 2) Bizarre pronunciation of mischievous
 * 3) Russian
 * 4) Skin colour

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 19


 * 1) English grammar question
 * 2) t'iao-chin-chiao in Chinese chaarcters
 * 3) 'Inos
 * 4) Horse racing betting
 * 5) German Wikipedia article

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 20


 * 1) "Inconvenient" or "Inconvenience"?
 * 2) preventive or preventative?
 * 3) Willy nilly redirect
 * 4) Pronunciation of -sts ending in English
 * 5) Finger counting
 * 6) Learning German and French

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 21


 * 1) Pollack
 * 2) 堂姑嫂 in English?
 * 3) Systema Piezatorum
 * 4) What is the etiquette when somebody sends you a 'hello'
 * 5) Arabic Name
 * 6) Etymology of verbal particle "up"
 * 7) english mother tongue
 * 8) Most successful English writer

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 22


 * 1) Expedition to Manchoukuo
 * 2) Display of Kanji
 * 3) What is meant when someone signs a message sends?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 23


 * 1) German sentence
 * 2) New England Portuguese
 * 3) Translation of Ching Hai?
 * 4) Generic name for Aspirin-type medication
 * 5) "An Eurostar train";  words starting with a vowel but a consonant sound

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 24


 * 1) Indefinite Articles In Example

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 25


 * 1) French translation needed
 * 2) Old/Middle English meaning of Chel

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 26


 * 1) Plural
 * 2) Hebrew memorial
 * 3) Words "philosophy" and "religion"
 * 4) Being "funny looking"
 * 5) Pronunciation of BIOS
 * 6) Apostrophes

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 27


 * 1) Is there a more formal term than op-ed?
 * 2) Changing word definitions
 * 3) Inventing new verbs with prepositions
 * 4) E Prime
 * 5) Scientific Version of Word
 * 6) Description of pictures, phrasing problems
 * 7) Whence came Jessica?

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 28


 * 1) Indefinite article w/o definite?
 * 2) En Dashes
 * 3) Phrases and places
 * 4) Different connotations of exclamations
 * 5) "Efficiency" of different languages

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 29


 * 1) Word for someone who loves nature and being outside?
 * 2) Trains
 * 3) What is Tampanian English?
 * 4) The name Tony Antony or Anthony
 * 5) What language is this?
 * 6) reading
 * 7) Sensible of

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 30


 * 1) Daddy's Gone by Glasvegas

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 31


 * 1) Inanimate Libra
 * 2) Elephantry
 * 3) And another thing . ..
 * 4) German memorial translation