Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2007

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 1


 * 1) Malaprops?
 * 2) Russian for "Jew" vs. "Hebrew"
 * 3) Looking for a solution
 * 4) Hyphenation of units
 * 5) Korean transliteration tool
 * 6) Tomorrow I'll Wake up and Scald Myself with Tea

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 2


 * 1) The tail at the end of a "u" and "t"
 * 2) Hopi question
 * 3) I'll not fix your computer.
 * 4) origin of the word unique

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 3


 * 1) Translation
 * 2) Format for Dates
 * 3) Norwegian Dialects
 * 4) meaning
 * 5) Subject / Verb Agreement: Singular or Plural
 * 6) run a tight ship
 * 7) "Reporting for duty"
 * 8) Endings-ish

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 4


 * 1) Lingua Franca
 * 2) Syllable division signs in IPA
 * 3) Stress (American English)
 * 4) what is the meaning of the following sentence in urdu?
 * 5) Aesop Translation

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 5


 * 1) Plural form of German nouns
 * 2) Sentiers battus
 * 3) common words
 * 4) Last name ethnicity

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 6


 * 1) Breathe in HEBREW
 * 2) Verb much?
 * 3) Are you a patient even if you're just in for routine medical exams?
 * 4) Sign language curiosity
 * 5) Song Translation

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 7


 * 1) Demonstrating the tones in Mandarin using music notes
 * 2) esposas
 * 3) A word for the realization of one's flaws
 * 4) what does llueve mean in english
 * 5) People, Persons

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 8


 * 1) The Mercy Seat technique
 * 2) Midge Ure's surname, and the possessive for words ending in "X"
 * 3) Categorized index for Wikipedia:Refence desk/Language
 * 4) Pull GS - explanation needed
 * 5) caes.. (latin)
 * 6) The Little Something That Could

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 9


 * 1) Distinguish Two Words
 * 2) Different cultural perpective book
 * 3) Why are the most common verbs often the most irregular?
 * 4) Internet slang acronym pronunciation
 * 5) Chinese Help!

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 10


 * 1) what is the difference between contagious and infectious
 * 2) Duckwalk
 * 3) Formal word request

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 11


 * 1) (Nada)

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 12


 * 1) Nahuatl translation
 * 2) Does this exist?
 * 3) 'have to' and 'need to' as modal verbs
 * 4) Your
 * 5) Looking for source of translation
 * 6) English Grammar - Parallel Comparision
 * 7) subspecies of the possessive

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 13


 * 1) Capping his tags
 * 2) Korean question

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 14


 * 1) proestro - English?
 * 2) Some kind of phonetic popularity reference?
 * 3) Etymology
 * 4) Greek COA motto - need characters and translation
 * 5) Name for the disk in the bottom of a urinal?
 * 6) Greek phrase

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 15


 * 1) Æ
 * 2) Suffice
 * 3) Mademoiselle
 * 4) Jar and jug
 * 5) Is it ever correct to say "these ones" or "those ones" in English?
 * 6) preposition question

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 16


 * 1) Expletives
 * 2) Need a word
 * 3) Pronounciation??
 * 4) 'Only in London' in Latin
 * 5) Women's underwear
 * 6) Bad English?
 * 7) Decommissioning
 * 8) allowance in spanish
 * 9) In around 2007
 * 10) That's the...!

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 17


 * 1) Overly-extended vowels in IPA
 * 2) correct or ot not.
 * 3) What is a person from San Marino?
 * 4) Fish strike

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 18


 * 1) Need Translation...
 * 2) Norwegian Dialects
 * 3) a latin sentence
 * 4) Drawing a Blank
 * 5) Synonyms
 * 6) Salir vs. irse
 * 7) Creation of a new language

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 19


 * 1) bareback in spanish
 * 2) poetry rules
 * 3) I like questions
 * 4) Need help interpreting St. Augustine
 * 5) Which country of spellings?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 20


 * 1) Evidence of a syntactically important phoneme/grapheme?
 * 2) what form of language is this?
 * 3) a passage in latin
 * 4) Greek and German
 * 5) Apse meaning
 * 6) Why is 'fucker' used as an insult?
 * 7) Portuguese translation

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 21


 * 1) the eme meme
 * 2) Magellan discovers . ..
 * 3) B&M is a bit of a dog-a-lot shop
 * 4) 's- prefix for Dutch municipalities?
 * 5) spanish translation

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 22


 * 1) Quote Decryption
 * 2) Word usage question
 * 3) Confusion over in / at
 * 4) Suffixes in Proper Names
 * 5) Online Resources for learning Arabic
 * 6) Portuguese question

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 23


 * 1) Monetary grammer
 * 2) When "someone commiting an action" is used as a noun instead of a verb, should "someone" be possessive?
 * 3) Same sense?

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 24


 * 1) Languages
 * 2) word meaning
 * 3) free online pronoucation guide
 * 4) Sond Words
 * 5) Uh-oh, uh-huh, etc.
 * 6) Becoming an Interpreter for the UN.

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 25


 * 1) "have sex"
 * 2) latin sentence
 * 3) Sweet phonetics
 * 4) Proper English grammar
 * 5) Do you know the IPA?
 * 6) Origin of "pupil" to mean a "student"

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 26


 * 1) question about possible connections between Meluhha, Moluccas (and maybe other words like Malay, latin mal, Moloch, etc?)--taken from Meluhha talk page
 * 2) Do you use en, em, or whatever for range of years?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 27


 * 1) The Scottish Play
 * 2) latin phrase
 * 3) latin question
 * 4) opposite to sin

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 28


 * 1) Strategies
 * 2) hebrew translation
 * 3) Animal words
 * 4) Fins-de-siecles

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 29


 * 1) All-New Improved RD5000!
 * 2) to Wareh, an apology
 * 3) To π or not to π, that is my question
 * 4) Welsh dictionary with pronunciations
 * 5) Backtranslate a machine-translated text?
 * 6) Apapapapache

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 30


 * 1) Schweinfurt and Swinford
 * 2) TURNPIKE ~ origin of the word
 * 3) Estonian Translator
 * 4) Dickens and English vowels

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 31


 * 1) Possible translation, English to French or Italian
 * 2) What is the adjective for something or someone from Hong Kong?
 * 3) Driving while intoxicated
 * 4) DUCKWALK
 * 5) Consensus in a redundant way
 * 6) The use of "Chef " in the United States