Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2012

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 1


 * 1) Words from the song
 * 2) Japanese writing systems

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 2


 * 1) Meaning of cochorn
 * 2) Lyrics
 * 3) -ery and other things
 * 4) Difference between "repetitive and "repetitious"
 * 5) Hellenic Language link in  front page of wikipedia.com

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 3


 * 1) French question.
 * 2) "Yog-Sothoth"
 * 3) Voiceless labial-velar approximant
 * 4) Turkish terminal "-r" sounding like "-rzh" or "-rsh"
 * 5) "Long-lived"

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 4


 * 1) Colons vs comma
 * 2) Gender of collections of nouns in German

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 5


 * 1) Snacks and snack bars in German
 * 2) presentness as opposed to presence
 * 3) New def of cynical ?
 * 4) Pronunciation of "vitamin" history question
 * 5) Need a Portuguese translation

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 6


 * 1) Characters in the name Liu Buchan
 * 2) Russian - loanwords with 'g' instead of 'h'?
 * 3) French election jokes

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 7


 * 1) 4th-iary
 * 2) Spanish abbreviations
 * 3) Do love, do friends
 * 4) There are already questions about François Hollande
 * 5) Japanese stroke order

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 8


 * 1) Pronunciation: where is the stress of "as if"? on "as" or on "if"?
 * 2) french gender suffix
 * 3) Albeit

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 9


 * 1) West African surname
 * 2) なる (Japanese)

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 10


 * 1) How do you label an amount of nothing, such as 0 bee(s). Would I be correct in treating nothing like a plural?(English language)
 * 2) Korean translation
 * 3) ş alt code

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 11


 * 1) Pronunciation of Sans Pareil

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 12


 * 1) Pat in the middle
 * 2) Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * 3) Pleasantly surprised
 * 4) Userpage Translation

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 13


 * 1) What is the correct reading for "鹿目?"
 * 2) Hand meaning skill
 * 3) Hakuna matata
 * 4) "ever" in Spanish

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 14


 * 1) Buttercup sandwiches
 * 2) Etymology of an Afrikaans standard expression
 * 3) Ever ever a verb?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 16


 * 1) Japanese emotional words missing
 * 2) Foxes
 * 3) Citation style at UK universities
 * 4) Looking for grammatical help

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 17


 * 1) Bronze two-pounders
 * 2) Grammar checker like grammarly or whitesmoke
 * 3) Kant (German)
 * 4) What's an "of character"?
 * 5) Of onions and tildes
 * 6) "Official" website
 * 7) Origin of "What mockery is this?"

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 18


 * 1) Accents in English
 * 2) Detail évocateur
 * 3) "cosa es de reír o de llora" (spain)
 * 4) Demonyms and their uses

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 19


 * 1) Reverted to a long wait of Fail.  Angry was Heo Mok.

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 20


 * 1) Consonant clusters
 * 2) Tone deaf, intonational languages
 * 3) Origin of "You set 'em up, I'll knock 'em down"?
 * 4) Sichuan Mandarin
 * 5) Posh but polite department store
 * 6) R
 * 7) Platypodes
 * 8) "Buckwheat" as pejorative/racial term before 1934

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 21


 * 1) Definition of phrase "one-handed novel"
 * 2) Check grammar, spelling and more
 * 3) "5th avenue executive"
 * 4) Chapter recall or review

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 22


 * 1) Verse in Rudyard Kipling's poem If—
 * 2) Russian letter in Hunt for Red October
 * 3) Punctuation for a list of questions.
 * 4) Reingequasselt? English translation?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 23


 * 1) Napoleon Bonaparte quotation: request for translation
 * 2) Syntax
 * 3) Sabse Himmat Wala Kon?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 24


 * 1) Albanian-to-English translation
 * 2) Sun Tzu quote
 * 3) articles

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 25


 * 1) How Is Gender Assigned to New Words in Gender-Specific Languages?
 * 2) Japanese question

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 26


 * 1) Lux Aurumque
 * 2) Is this phrase grammatically correct?

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 27


 * 1) Discourage as an antonym
 * 2) Non-American software
 * 3) Vocal imitation of Hitler
 * 4) A Pangram of Sounds

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 28


 * 1) Font for Persian
 * 2) Collapsed like a bad chair on a black Monday
 * 3) Proper noun - Rivers and connecting article subject to the river.
 * 4) Passé composé
 * 5) Best natural universal language?
 * 6) Creoles
 * 7) Sam Wanamaker

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 29


 * 1) Language evolution
 * 2) Arabic question about a merchant inn
 * 3) Indian Ocean Trade

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 May 31


 * 1) Phoning
 * 2) Shrew bread
 * 3) lanaugue