Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2010

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 1


 * 1) UIR WORDS
 * 2) In the field of bank or banking sector
 * 3) Conjunction question
 * 4) Bantu noun classes & multiple nouns
 * 5) Gioja
 * 6) the extent to which languages sound alike
 * 7) Brandywell Stadium
 * 8) French 's'
 * 9) Correct form

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 2


 * 1) German to English translation request
 * 2) 'On accident' or 'by accident'?
 * 3) Kanji variants
 * 4) Butt

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 3


 * 1) Lieutenant Governor
 * 2) Adverbesque words
 * 3) French sound
 * 4) Vocab questions.
 * 5) meaning of abbreviation ROC

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 4


 * 1) "Deep and profound"
 * 2) Spanish dictionary

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 5


 * 1) Verbs in French
 * 2) Why doesn't Google's translator have an option to translate Austrian into English?
 * 3) Ureter

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 6


 * 1) –st
 * 2) Crimson and Clover
 * 3) Greek or Latin for database
 * 4) anchor off, anchored off
 * 5) Regarding South Indian Dravidian Langauges.

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 7


 * 1) Term for coincidental repeated appearance of a word
 * 2) Eventuated?
 * 3) Vitamin D

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 8


 * 1) Confused by grammatical terms
 * 2) Arabic help
 * 3) new shool slang-what does this mean...?

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 9


 * 1) Tip of the tongue
 * 2) Capitalisation
 * 3) movie playlist - what is the word
 * 4) bussiness communication

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 10


 * 1) radar
 * 2) Bilingualism in the world
 * 3) Pronunciation for Norman surname
 * 4) English to Spanish translation request
 * 5) COINTELPRO
 * 6) Develop a virus

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 11


 * 1) Kurdish as Iranic language
 * 2) Proper translation of Chinese novel title
 * 3) Eponymous
 * 4) "LRT horse van"?
 * 5) soroptimist
 * 6) 美国 - Chinese name for the United States
 * 7) Scottish English

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 12


 * 1) Chimata de uwasa no
 * 2) I have or I have got?
 * 3) Business
 * 4) Pronunciation of 'Bispham'

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 13


 * 1) French expression
 * 2) prevalence of the conjugations in latin

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 14


 * 1) Unexpected use of "incunabula"
 * 2) Non-drip gloss paint
 * 3) Using Wikis to improve student writing - action-research articles?
 * 4) need major help diagramming this sentence.
 * 5) Violent macho expressions

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 15


 * 1) "Forget me not" vs "Don't forget me"
 * 2) Haitian Creole grammar
 * 3) Portuguese Translation
 * 4) Looking for a word
 * 5) Too/overly minimal pairs

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 16


 * 1) Spanish "ir", "estar" and "ser"
 * 2) Rhetoric
 * 3) translation request
 * 4) Looking for a French news with French subtitles
 * 5) Heavily Germanized Latin challenge
 * 6) Stalin's name in Spanish

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 17


 * 1) Japanese polite negatives
 * 2) Question for polyglots, what does it mean to be able to understand a language but not "know it"?
 * 3) International Phonetic Alphabet
 * 4) Saint Anne, Alderney
 * 5) French

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 18


 * 1) Origins of the word prat
 * 2) English grammar: Tense in reported speech
 * 3) Names in Jokes

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 19


 * 1) Blazing Saddles en español
 * 2) What does 'พ่อมึงตาย' mean?
 * 3) Scripture notation
 * 4) Pronunciation of "aunt"
 * 5) "Data store" or "datastore"?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 20


 * 1) Within an inch of its life
 * 2) the N word
 * 3) Language in 14th century England
 * 4) Japanese characters help
 * 5) Bulgarian help
 * 6) Pronunciation of Latin "Niger" and "niger"
 * 7) Margin of excellence
 * 8) Spanish flap

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 21


 * 1) Translation arabic - english
 * 2) Wehe
 * 3) Works Cited
 * 4) Grammatical number of plural-sounding place names in Spanish

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 22


 * 1) Asian language film
 * 2) Most popular U.S. president worldwide
 * 3) Destiny Turns on the Radio
 * 4) "Hauptkustus"/"Hauptkuatos"
 * 5) Quick question: Japanese
 * 6) Old Boy (manga) - Japanese help
 * 7) What does "Fragko" mean? (Greek, I'm assuming)

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 23


 * 1) Fast food restaurants in Montreal
 * 2) Weapons of Maths Instruction
 * 3) The repetative repeated repeats repeat repeatedly.
 * 4) Bowling pigeons?
 * 5) Would anybody care to proof-read my documented essay on the Chilean mining incident?
 * 6) Angel Land

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 24


 * 1) Before the junk jokes
 * 2) Would it be wrong to leave out the "is"?

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 25


 * 1) sociopath- pronunciation
 * 2) Basis for La Spezia-Rimini line
 * 3) Some assistance with Argentinian statistics from a Spanish speaker?
 * 4) Accent used by Carrie Kenny on Kim Possible
 * 5) "thelonious" meaning and origin
 * 6) Spinoff question - what dialect of English is this?
 * 7) Quantity/unit dash when in adjective position

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 26


 * 1) off of
 * 2) scansion in virgil
 * 3) Meaning of "control" as a French word
 * 4) This - That - These - Those
 * 5) The girl's name Perri
 * 6) terminological inexactitude

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 27


 * 1) Repetition of 'is' in specific phrases
 * 2) Wealth Obliges
 * 3) Cantonese phrase
 * 4) Latin help please
 * 5) Is performancewise a word?
 * 6) Scandinavian names

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 28


 * 1) Malayalam and Tamil

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 29


 * 1) Part of speech for please
 * 2) Correct use of hyphens
 * 3) Polish translation
 * 4) After colons and semicolons
 * 5) Katana = Equinox?
 * 6) T-glottalization in American "kitten" etc.
 * 7) As easy as pie origin

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 30


 * 1) Rioplatense "vos" conjugation
 * 2) Image vs picture
 * 3) Past of the past
 * 4) "Named for"
 * 5) the mystery schwa
 * 6) Vowels and English verb forms