Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2011

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 1


 * 1) Irish uvular R - really?
 * 2) Bars and clubs
 * 3) IPA notation for diphthongs
 * 4) Ring ring
 * 5) Derivation of the English word "bad"

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 2


 * 1) "Exposure to college" vs. "colleg u e exposure"
 * 2) Tahrir

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 3


 * 1) Northern Irish words
 * 2) "Never end a sentence with a preposition"

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 4


 * 1) Help deciphering Japanese writing
 * 2) Pronunciation of Christiaan Huygens
 * 3) short reading materials about anthropological, universal themes for students with no reading habit ...

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 5


 * 1) Danish tre
 * 2) Black fog
 * 3) Middle Chinese Swadesh List
 * 4) Help emailing French museum in Tahiti

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 6


 * 1) Euphemism ?
 * 2) english usage
 * 3) URDU TRANSLATION -ARUN S BAGH
 * 4) Comma usage in "the intervention of the queen dowager Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Richard"
 * 5) Sfogliattele
 * 6) "Various of"

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 7


 * 1) Doctors saying "we'
 * 2) English
 * 3) Chinese readings
 * 4) Cantonese help
 * 5) Seal of Joan II, Countess of Burgundy
 * 6) Looking for a word

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 8


 * 1) Russian question
 * 2) Plural or singular?
 * 3) pronouns.
 * 4) More Chinese help
 * 5) A new who/whom dilemma

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 9


 * 1) Request for French translation
 * 2) Savoy teeth

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 10


 * 1) "Shiver"?
 * 2) JonBenét Ramsey
 * 3) How do stone profoundly deaf people learn to read and write?
 * 4) The English word CANARD

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 11


 * 1) What does 'metaphysica sunt, non leguntur' mean?
 * 2) Should both be plural?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 12


 * 1) Name for an earthquake
 * 2) Shakespearean scholar?
 * 3) Chinese lingual evolution

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 13


 * 1) When to skip "the"

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 14


 * 1) Nickname transcription
 * 2) Arabic translation

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 15


 * 1) French translation
 * 2) What does this mean?
 * 3) repository/depository
 * 4) Translating Japanese honorifics
 * 5) Ginger up horses
 * 6) Translation from Arabic to help with identification of images

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 16


 * 1) Van von addresses a person ...
 * 2) Transitive Verbs
 * 3) "Croire" and the subjunctive mood / « Croire » et le subjonctif
 * 4) quick-fire cuts
 * 5) Quod non: a Dutch phrase?
 * 6) OED reference for "kilo"
 * 7) "Zooterkins"

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 17


 * 1) Chinese readings
 * 2) Need good Latin translation

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 18


 * 1) Arabic pronunciation
 * 2) The one

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 19


 * 1) The name Stavros
 * 2) Quran translation

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 20


 * 1) Pronunciation of 了 in Chinese song
 * 2) Capitalization of hyphenated proper nouns

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 21


 * 1) Slovenia
 * 2) Translating Chinese Proverb
 * 3) Looking for Seneca translations

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 22


 * 1) Political saying - "One right up the bracket"
 * 2) 'I always wanted a Harley with hot, tight mahatmas'

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 23


 * 1) "aërial"
 * 2) Japanese Given Name

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 24


 * 1) Santo Poco
 * 2) "Un passato non chiaro" - can someone please translate from Italian?
 * 3) Odd German idiom
 * 4) correct form of sentences

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 25


 * 1) "Esboompjes" (Dutch)
 * 2) What is missing in the sentence that has an Apostrophe of belonging?
 * 3) Children's alphabet
 * 4) ser and ir

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 26


 * 1) Sight unseen (expression)
 * 2) Chinese to English
 * 3) What language is this?
 * 4) Same or not?
 * 5) The "T" in "often"

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 27


 * 1) Forming negative clauses with copulative verbs
 * 2) Use of the word "welcome" when referring to childbirth
 * 3) Nominalisation of verbs
 * 4) Help needed updating :pl:Tab Two
 * 5) Latin texts in need of translation

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 28


 * 1) Doing without "on" when dating an event
 * 2) How to answer a question posted in 2006

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 29


 * 1) Lunchbox in Portuguese, posted May 19 2006
 * 2) Translation from Dutch

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 November 30


 * 1) U Thant
 * 2) She had a good innings
 * 3) Why isn't Cricket played in Canada?
 * 4) "Playing The Race Card" equivalents?
 * 5) Origin of word blackleg
 * 6) Names like "Frasier" and "Luthor"