Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2009

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 1


 * 1) The study of borders
 * 2) Meaning
 * 3) Russian translation
 * 4) grape variety pronunciation
 * 5) What does Sjt. Prefix stand for in English.
 * 6) Recording Spanish Internet Radio Talk Shows in MP3 format
 * 7) Strange english sentences to latin sentences
 * 8) Pron. of leucism

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 2


 * 1) French in Lady Gaga song
 * 2) pronunciation and language

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 3


 * 1) "Only" used as a contrast
 * 2) Crusader states
 * 3) English Scientific Word For Language Area (Not Broca's Area)
 * 4) What does OP stand for?
 * 5) German: Why are umlauts not considered allophones?
 * 6) Two Loanwords With Similar Meanings
 * 7) cat > feline ; badger > meline?
 * 8) Lawyer and liar pronunciation

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 4


 * 1) Extra. Full. Stops.
 * 2) Standard English usage for "of"
 * 3) Etymology of "Just So Stories"
 * 4) Is there a name for this odd use of "local"?
 * 5) Indirect Speech; and a second question which is about the Use of If and When
 * 6) Parents

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 5


 * 1) Threat?
 * 2) Old Norse
 * 3) Spanish Main
 * 4) Switching syllables in two words to comic effect

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 6


 * 1) Dumb words and expressions
 * 2) Is the following sentece acceptable?
 * 3) Medieval word meaning
 * 4) Palatalization in English
 * 5) Term/name for different "flavors" of a (math) denotaton?
 * 6) subject vs citizen
 * 7) Bird law
 * 8) What does khazh mean?
 * 9) Are these guillemets?
 * 10) Rusyn people
 * 11) Geographic appositives

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 7


 * 1) English - "Metropolis" or something else
 * 2) Latin ↔ Cyrillic converter for Tatar

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 8


 * 1) Full stops
 * 2) MEANING OF £ IS ?
 * 3) "Wanna"

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 9


 * 1) Duck Duck Goose
 * 2) audio-ization?
 * 3) Politeness and grammar
 * 4) maths
 * 5) Compound sentence
 * 6) Pronunciation of Italian (?) surname: Mucchi
 * 7) 1000 words of a language
 * 8) Simple Dutch translation, please
 * 9) request for advice on arabic textbooks
 * 10) Latin and German

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 10


 * 1) other languages that can understand Romani
 * 2) Translate this word
 * 3) Just out of curiosity...
 * 4) The Blower's Daughter
 * 5) English spelling

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 11


 * 1) Prison learning
 * 2) IPA - terribly confused
 * 3) What kind of a food is Wikipedia?
 * 4) Shoogun Froid
 * 5) Another Middle English word definition
 * 6) Van Gogh
 * 7) Using comma

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 12


 * 1) Flour and Flower
 * 2) What is the German word for button, you know the ones with the pins on the back?
 * 3) The Finnish girl's name Päivi

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 13


 * 1) 苏荷
 * 2) A term for this class of words?
 * 3) would

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 14


 * 1) How do English-speaking Canadians pronounce "Quebec"?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 15


 * 1) Snot
 * 2) Dirty cities
 * 3) Pen (writing instrument)
 * 4) Wallachia
 * 5) Comma before "and"
 * 6) One sentence paragraphs
 * 7) Mahmoud

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 16


 * 1) the name of a test
 * 2) Poll + pollex
 * 3) WI-FI
 * 4) How do you pronounce years 2009, 2012 etc.. ?
 * 5) Pronunciation of comfortable
 * 6) Chain conundrums, anyone?

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 17


 * 1) grammatical antipattern used in advertising
 * 2) Japanese translation
 * 3) I'm collecting words which can't end sentences (properly).

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 18


 * 1) Is ‘lo’ or ‘laa’ the correct version for ‘law’?
 * 2) Translation From Polish
 * 3) Link between "boreal" and "arboreal" ?
 * 4) "Don"/"Dan" river names
 * 5) Mispronouncing "et cetera" as "ek cetera"
 * 6) Quotation along the lines of "You haven't lived until..."

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 19


 * 1) "Obligated"?
 * 2) Exchange messages from
 * 3) Not only am I not that thing OR Not only I am not that thing?
 * 4) special
 * 5) Not to want
 * 6) Usage of "Our friend"

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 20


 * 1) Fireplace accessory
 * 2) Roma (or Romani) for Gypsy
 * 3) Latin to English translation software
 * 4) Latin Inscription

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 21


 * 1) Bowden cable pronunciation
 * 2) "offhand"
 * 3) What is the biggest language without its own Wikipedia?
 * 4) identify a language from annoyingly inadequate information

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 22


 * 1) Does the Oxford English Dictionary mention same-sex marriage?
 * 2) Unidentified symbol from a rebus
 * 3) Simple context-free grammar for English

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 23


 * 1) Minimum requirements for a complete language
 * 2) "probando"
 * 3) Proto-computer data-bank system
 * 4) Diallelus
 * 5) Philosophy
 * 6) Obviate
 * 7) nom de morte
 * 8) ...and still another German question
 * 9) Ambiguity in English Syntax

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 24


 * 1) What does this say
 * 2) O Fortuna
 * 3) Italicization in cursive handwriting
 * 4) Ikonganaku
 * 5) Help with (archaic) Dutch translation
 * 6) The use of "ibid."

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 25


 * 1) In business usage, does "payroll" include "benefits" ?
 * 2) Questions about the use of prepositions
 * 3) Sport Abbrevations?
 * 4) Etymology of religiosity

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 26


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) ffrench and fforde
 * 3) Danish Translation
 * 4) Bulgarian Scientist
 * 5) Use of a negated auxiliary verb in English
 * 6) APA Citation, More than six authors, same last name and year, but different article.
 * 7) Cyrillic Writing But Which Language?
 * 8) Thanksgiving irony

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 27


 * 1) Tuner - a movie musical?
 * 2) Byzantine surnames
 * 3) Use or nonuse of prepositions
 * 4) Search for examples of non-pronounced H and for explainations
 * 5) "Etc." in French
 * 6) "Tens of ..." vs. "Dozens of ..."

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 28


 * 1) IPA usage
 * 2) similar words
 * 3) 14th Century names - "fil'"
 * 4) Pronunciation of where and river
 * 5) Sanskrit word for war

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 29


 * 1) Ann
 * 2) Datasets for phonetic and cognational analysis of natural languages.

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 30


 * 1) Word for ancient military
 * 2) 'Cream' in coffee
 * 3) Appointment
 * 4) Foal-boat split?