Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2016

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 * 1) Geese
 * 2) Dhingo

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 * 1) Kalervo Kalervopoika  Kullervo Kullervoinen (Untamo/Untamoinen)
 * 2) speed (of) up to
 * 3) close, use
 * 4) French Translation Help?

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 * 1) x, the unknown
 * 2) Nôrmale Mûsique

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 4


 * 1) What is the correct verb? Is the noun singular or plural?  Is the correct verb "are" or "is"?
 * 2) is english destined to become different languages? (e.g british, american, australian..)

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 * 1) Tan Hana Wighna Tan Sirna
 * 2) Malba

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 6


 * 1) "Gjylihan"
 * 2) What's the most common word used in "_______ is my middle name"?
 * 3) 24/6

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 7


 * 1) Benzaiten
 * 2) When Japanese write, do they also use the semi-cursive script or other systems?
 * 3) Adjective version of 'officer', 'registrar' and 'commissioner'

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 8


 * 1) Allophones
 * 2) English word for this?
 * 3) Christopher Columbus
 * 4) Common error of leaving out the second comma in a nonrestrictive clause

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 9


 * 1) Fill in the blanks
 * 2) სხვარი სხვარიაო, მარა / ნასწავლი სხვარი ორი სხვარიაო

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 * 1) German Translation Request
 * 2) Superintendent Chalmers from the Simpsons accent
 * 3) English understanding problem

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 12


 * 1) Difference between Native Americans in the US and Mexico
 * 2) Organs in German
 * 3) More than one is/are ?

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 13


 * 1) What was this typo supposed to be?
 * 2) Double consonants in German verbs
 * 3) Pronunciation of German loanwords in English

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 14


 * 1) What word describes this relationship between words?
 * 2) "Pelt a bluff"
 * 3) sanskrit
 * 4) Maktoum tree, translate from Arabic

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 * 1) A record-breaking seven parties
 * 2) Refinement sought
 * 3) A song in a Norwegian dialect

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 17


 * 1) Tihwa
 * 2) Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
 * 3) Grammar of English nursery rhymes
 * 4) Disenfranchised

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 18


 * 1) Origin
 * 2) Which is most correct/natural?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 19


 * 1) Ý  (Vietnamese)

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 20


 * 1) Why are most lakes, including the Great Lakes, named with the word "Lake" first?  And not the proper name first?
 * 2) Etymology of craic further back than Middle Ages

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 * 1) How would Chinese people in the US in the 1920s and 1930s render their names?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 22


 * 1) Difference between words
 * 2) spanish
 * 3) Etymology of sphygmomanometer

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 23


 * 1) Poonami
 * 2) possessive 's

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 24


 * 1) Create new language for articles: Arabizi
 * 2) The word either: should it only precede a list of two items?  Or can it precede three or more items?
 * 3) At my disposal/at my disposition

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 * 1) Latin manuscript

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 27


 * 1) Neutral expressions for effeminate men in English?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 29


 * 1) Touchy-feely
 * 2) English words
 * 3) Vas ist los?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 May 30


 * 1) Fancy letter at beginning of a paragraph
 * 2) Chinook language
 * 3) Pronoun case for object of to be

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 * 1) And/or
 * 2) What does this sign say?