Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2015

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 1


 * 1) Decimal terminology in Spanish
 * 2) Grammar

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 2


 * 1) How to write Arabic roots
 * 2) Word placement

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 3


 * 1) Italic in Italian
 * 2) Trying to remember title of book, about writing non-fictional stories

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 4


 * 1) Fictional Character
 * 2) Translation into Hebrew
 * 3) Walk the stars

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 5


 * 1) Unverified Dutch-language claim in the article Spuyten Duyvil Creek

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 7


 * 1) Indigenous Australian
 * 2) Youth World Championships

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 8


 * 1) yes or no
 * 2) A spectrogram riddle
 * 3) Trouble at t'Mill
 * 4) Meaning of a word used in King Lear
 * 5) Tfal in Arabic writing

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 9


 * 1) "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (rounded vowels in French songs)
 * 2) change of meaning by misunderstanding context

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 10


 * 1) Commonwealth

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 11


 * 1) Love the One You're With
 * 2) First usage of 'white' and 'black' for skin colour?
 * 3) Alleged assimilation of [n] to [m] in Italian before certain consonants

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 13


 * 1) A question about the Spanish language and United States law
 * 2) Hapax legomena among proper nouns
 * 3) Shit happenstance

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 14


 * 1) Self-referential question
 * 2) Pronunciation/writing of Sino-Korean numerals
 * 3) spellings in French
 * 4) "It's Kobe taking over for LeBron"

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 15


 * 1) Could Holden Caulfield be at a place which is not a hospital?
 * 2) Language codes

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 16


 * 1) Meaning of Geheimrat
 * 2) Modern Greek pronunciation of Koine texts

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 17


 * 1) How do French speakers abbreviate GIGN in conversation?
 * 2) A person who only gives attention to people who say negative things about them
 * 3) In vs. out
 * 4) Languages, genetically far enough from each other, but phonetically sounding quite similar, to a foreigner's ear.

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 18


 * 1) Is there any language, other than Old Egyptian, which has a joint word - both for "fishing rod " - and for "waiting "?
 * 2) "-ec" peoples in Spanish
 * 3) Ae and Oe

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 19


 * 1) Beckenbauer
 * 2) Part of speech statistics
 * 3) Cant be arsed
 * 4) I need the translation of the following English sentence into some languages:
 * 5) Apostrophes in headlines, and quotes.
 * 6) How many books in high-school?
 * 7) Pour vous, rien.

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 20


 * 1) What time and when

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 21


 * 1) Svetlana Penkina - help please :-)
 * 2) Al-Kawakibi
 * 3) emoji

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 22


 * 1) The Next Big Thing
 * 2) Thorn with a little e on top
 * 3) "firm going" and "rough going"

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 23


 * 1) Trading in English varieties
 * 2) Meaning of the word 'wail'

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 24


 * 1) learn
 * 2) "juniper Germans", "willow Russians" and "brushwood Englishmen"
 * 3) 24 - hour clock
 * 4) 450th anniversary

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 25


 * 1) From the Russian: twice-bannered, twice-starred

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 27


 * 1) Tunisian alphabet?

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 28


 * 1) Fruit saying

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 29


 * 1) Plural behind measurements

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 November 30


 * 1) Languages on Serbian poster
 * 2) "For a long time and good reasons, I have..."
 * 3) Lithuanian vocative