Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2013

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 1


 * 1) "Without it"
 * 2) fine vs. finely
 * 3) Sew trousers

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 2


 * 1) Vowel reduction in Russian and Ukrainian

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 3


 * 1) Ibidem

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 4


 * 1) Throw the curve (clothe the curve)
 * 2) Cartoon

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 5


 * 1) Pronunciation of Camberwell
 * 2) "Churro" used as an adjective in European Spanish

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 6


 * 1) Dutch spellings of place names
 * 2) Meaning of the sentence
 * 3) The name for this phrasing structure
 * 4) "One of the best films of this or any year"
 * 5) "dark L"

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 7


 * 1) Glottal stop
 * 2) Term for political issue
 * 3) Youthful cheering on sports teams
 * 4) Stress in Greek names
 * 5) Horse and cart/wagon/buggy/carriage/whathaveyou
 * 6) Finding place name rhymes
 * 7) Speaking of rhyme
 * 8) W and V as English-language vowels
 * 9) Poetry and/or songs in sign languages
 * 10) Why is Rocio a girl (in Spanish)

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 8


 * 1) Assistance of/from
 * 2) Troodeloo (?) in Rebecca (1940 film)
 * 3) Clarification needed about an African Language
 * 4) "Making out"

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 9


 * 1) Using the word "Mississippi" as a device for measuring time
 * 2) Describing facial expression

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 10


 * 1) Plural of Golem in Hebrew

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 11


 * 1) Chinese names of fictional characters
 * 2) Translation of Spanish with misspellings/nonstandard forms
 * 3) Mooki Ana Low-Hey song translation
 * 4) Cyrillic Polish

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 12


 * 1) "Bomb girls" or "Shell girls?"
 * 2) The Japanese word "youmu"
 * 3) English grammar question (deverbal nouns)
 * 4) Phrase search

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 13


 * 1) Italian reader needed
 * 2) Guitar term

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 14


 * 1) Strange Japanese Sign: What is the original intent?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Darius
 * 3) What is easy for Mandarin Speakers to learn?
 * 4) 3rd person or 1st person

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 15


 * 1) Latin word order
 * 2) What is the etymology of the biscuit "Ginger Nut"?
 * 3) Hiberno-English

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 16


 * 1) Dashes
 * 2) English Translation please
 * 3) Who comes up with chemical names?
 * 4) What's the name for...

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 17


 * 1) Length of texts
 * 2) Words in French from a song
 * 3) Glottal stop
 * 4) What MLA format?
 * 5) Sidewalk Shed
 * 6) La jeunesse

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 18


 * 1) Russian fluency

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 19


 * 1) Businessman that only speaks Scots
 * 2) How to express "8th day of the week" and "13rd month of the year" in English?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 20


 * 1) Pronunciation of mum
 * 2) Avunculicide
 * 3) Russian translation
 * 4) Loss of "vosotros" in Latin America

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 21


 * 1) Yet another question about French
 * 2) Mysterious script
 * 3) You and You

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 22


 * 1) Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
 * 2) Are the following sentences "good"?
 * 3) US Usage of Prepositions (Revisited)
 * 4) Origin: Bishop (surname)
 * 5) Search Wikipedia in English

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 23


 * 1) Indian name subsequent uses
 * 2) Translations and Licenses
 * 3) Last night...
 * 4) Literacy in English

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 24


 * 1) Ada pronunciation
 * 2) Can a country be a cultural center?
 * 3) Chinese translation requested
 * 4) An English word
 * 5) bürgerschaftlicher - meaning?
 * 6) Using a word as a word itself
 * 7) Government Booklet

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 25


 * 1) Chinese help: Getting names of Chinese authors and novel titles
 * 2) Bulembu word origin
 * 3) Word matching
 * 4) after & behind in rankings
 * 5) Ultimate
 * 6) Offline equivalent of an online troll?

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 26


 * 1) Silver Linings Playbook
 * 2) translation chinese-english
 * 3) Simple. English to Russian
 * 4) Difference between football tournament & international football
 * 5) Drop me a line
 * 6) Using Words on TV  (Traitor)
 * 7) The original Magna Carta

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 27


 * 1) All hail?
 * 2) Not quite a comma splice
 * 3) The Queen is dead; long live the Queen!

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 28


 * 1) Patterns of speech in the 19th century
 * 2) -го in Common Slavic
 * 3) What is the meaning of BIOTA?
 * 4) It was agreed that we should fix English grammar
 * 5) Other/Another

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 29


 * 1) name for a second language skill evaulation
 * 2) Lax vowels in unchecked syllables
 * 3) ʊ→ʌ in dialects
 * 4) Pronunciation: bechamel
 * 5) Speaking of ch
 * 6) Standard and regional dialect words

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 30


 * 1) Grammatical?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Gia
 * 3) Chinese help: Niehai Hua characters
 * 4) Eejit
 * 5) Spanish ch
 * 6) How to write out "two hundred and twenty-five millionth" in Greek?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 31


 * 1) Yeah, no, absolutely.
 * 2) Who vs. Whom
 * 3) what is the opposite of 'good governance' (catchier than, 'bad governance')
 * 4) Chinese help: Further reading for Sai Jinhua