Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2012

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 1


 * 1) Second languages by number of speakers
 * 2) Chinese characters in File:Tsingdao Brewery.jpg
 * 3) Teuruarii IV: French translation
 * 4) dornthly dog pest
 * 5) Toilet signs

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 2


 * 1) Alhambra...a kind of Gazebo?
 * 2) "Rolling hills" in French

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 3


 * 1) Questions about Id al-Adha
 * 2) Writing Russian with an abjad
 * 3) Questions about Id al-Adha
 * 4) Is this another AE/BE difference?
 * 5) Where did our capitalisation rules for headings come from?
 * 6) Data

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 4


 * 1) Please state directly if this is a good prose or a bad prose.
 * 2) Is this prose readable?
 * 3) Korean help

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 5


 * 1) G.A. and a / o differences
 * 2) Capitalization in Spanish
 * 3) Russian romanization

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 6


 * 1) Something we'll only be able to guess
 * 2) Translation
 * 3) Phonology: unrounded back vowels
 * 4) French grammarian's last words
 * 5) Chinese translation

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 7


 * 1) Ma Dibos
 * 2) Which chinese language kept the most Middle Chinese vocabularies?
 * 3) Chinese help/File:說好普通話.png
 * 4) Question on Chinese.
 * 5) Are 'revelation' and 'revealment' synonyms?
 * 6) Chinese questions
 * 7) Who composed an Ode to Spot?
 * 8) Alcool Prohibition : "spoof-laws" ?

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 8


 * 1) Pensions, nominations, mutations, congés, etc
 * 2) Spanish
 * 3) Ancient Greek grammar
 * 4) a can of Spauldings
 * 5) Sign on, Sign in, log on, log in, signon, etc.
 * 6) French Court Translation
 * 7) Arabic speaker needed
 * 8) Translation help

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 9


 * 1) -er/-re
 * 2) Languages bar
 * 3) language using
 * 4) etc., usage of
 * 5) Ancient Greek Participles perfect table
 * 6) Chinese name of novel
 * 7) Quick translation from French

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 10


 * 1) another who/whom
 * 2) Chinese help
 * 3) Where is American English orthography used?
 * 4) Follow-up to "another who/whom" above: hyphen in well-known
 * 5) File:Soy sauce in supermarket.JPG

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 11


 * 1) Mandarin and Cantonese
 * 2) Why felis and not feles

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 12


 * 1) Another quick translation from French
 * 2) Whinging and whining

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 13


 * 1) buildings
 * 2) Grammar
 * 3) Biblical citation

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 14


 * 1) Capital letters in English
 * 2) Subjunctive in Spanish
 * 3) Parkways+driveways

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 15


 * 1) What does it mean?
 * 2) Allochthous, alternative and alternate, anonymously
 * 3) Is this writer here a dumb or a flowery writer?
 * 4) IPA transcription - Norwegian
 * 5) notional/notational
 * 6) Greek newspaper research
 * 7) Odd string of modifiers
 * 8) Samuel Kipi
 * 9) Peeps, Weemz, Sandz etc

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 16


 * 1) No one/Noone/No-one
 * 2) Accusative duplex Ancient Greek

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 17


 * 1) in what language does dx stand for /ʒ/ (zh)
 * 2) Etymology of Karkadeh or Hibiscus sabdariffa
 * 3) Hawaiian
 * 4) Pronouncing Heyde
 * 5) Help translating a page
 * 6) Pronouncing "death" as [dæθ] by Americans.
 * 7) Linguistic features of an encyclopaedia entry

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 18


 * 1) Hindi text help

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 19


 * 1) Incident vs accident
 * 2) Non PIE forms of sheep counting
 * 3) Is there any significance to a parrot being named 'Mithu'?
 * 4) Sanskrit
 * 5) Arabic translation needed
 * 6) English gramatical use of the phrase "easier said than done"
 * 7) Dangling participle... or not?
 * 8) Ov
 * 9) Maan News translation
 * 10) Whatever happened to the distinctions between there/their/they're and than/then?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 20


 * 1) How many official national languages are there in the world?
 * 2) garden path sentence
 * 3) Spelling of Mount Kailas or Kailash
 * 4) Uses of don't and doesn't
 * 5) Chinese help
 * 6) Idu do kraju, de kurtsi sraju
 * 7) Arabic help

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 21


 * 1) What comes before previous? After next?
 * 2) Guide to pronouncing (saying) mathematics in German
 * 3) Need a word meaning "fate"
 * 4) Stative VS dynamic verb: sustain

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 22


 * 1) "Boffins" and The Register
 * 2) Verb endings originally were pronouns?
 * 3) tampopo
 * 4) Question about translations of War and Peace
 * 5) "Do ritsi na bal!" translation?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 23


 * 1) Japanese transcription of German
 * 2) Pronunciaton of Speaight
 * 3) What Arabic to learn?
 * 4) Learn a language in x days
 * 5) Obscure Scottish dialect in Brave (2012)
 * 6) On/at website

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 25


 * 1) Is French spelling conservative?
 * 2) Kanji

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 26


 * 1) Waiting on someone
 * 2) Stiff cards

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 27


 * 1) Rhyming words ending in "one"
 * 2) Book
 * 3) Arouche in Spain?

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 28


 * 1) Name for cooking technique
 * 2) Checks drawn to cash
 * 3) Is "steampunk" a proper noun?
 * 4) Regarding the editing of a quotation in a newspaper  (or elsewhere)

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 29


 * 1) Chinese help: I Not Stupid Too
 * 2) Which tense?
 * 3) Does this response make sense in terms of grammar?
 * 4) What does this banner say?
 * 5) need adjective

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 30


 * 1) definition of standing agreement
 * 2) American English exercise
 * 3) Is it possible that a journal essay is made without footnotes?
 * 4) English
 * 5) Mongolian Wikipedia
 * 6) Looking for correct idiom and its origin