Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2013

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 2


 * 1) Finnegan's wake translation
 * 2) Nothing known about the man who ended WWII?
 * 3) Chriki - surname
 * 4) Attire
 * 5) Pon Haus pronunciation

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 3


 * 1) Set
 * 2) Daydreaming at Night
 * 3) Usage: suggest, recommend, advise + me
 * 4) Looking for word

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 4


 * 1) Can I say "that diffilcult period involved fear and hunger"?
 * 2) Radio 4 piece referencing Washoe the Chimp's use of 'taboo' language
 * 3) Than/then
 * 4) Clover?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 5


 * 1) duck for apples
 * 2) What's the Spanish for

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 7


 * 1) Pronunciation - Japanese
 * 2) Tax haven and tax heaven
 * 3) Ælfræd gréata?
 * 4) German translated needed!
 * 5) Translation from English into Manx?

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 8


 * 1) List of words that have lost  an un-suffixed form
 * 2) What's a Hoople Head?
 * 3) Won't a contraction of will not?
 * 4) I just wanna know about the so called conversational participants
 * 5) Hebrew translation, one sentence
 * 6) Turkish name for Cyprus

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 9


 * 1) Australian station-ery
 * 2) The term "Photobook" in AE
 * 3) French
 * 4) Nonstandard words
 * 5) Is there a guideline for expressing dates in formal scholarly papers?

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 10


 * 1) Jeg snakker ikke norsk godt
 * 2) synonyms
 * 3) about "Müllers"
 * 4) Chinese character question
 * 5) hospitalize
 * 6) Sino-Vietnamese place names
 * 7) Help with Yorkshire accent
 * 8) On the west vs. in the west

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 11


 * 1) What does this mean?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 12


 * 1) Improve a sentence
 * 2) Passivization

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 13


 * 1) Reading of a Japanese Character
 * 2) got?
 * 3) evangelism and proselytism
 * 4) Don't buffalo me so much
 * 5) Dulce et decorum...

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 14


 * 1) Years spelt out
 * 2) Punctuation required
 * 3) L and H
 * 4) Who Do You Trust?
 * 5) "!" and "?" style choices???
 * 6) I need a Chinese translation.

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 15


 * 1) Arabic interjection for "Ouch!"
 * 2) What language is this?
 * 3) What is the title of this Chinese drama?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 16


 * 1) Need some help from a wordsmith
 * 2) crossing, testcrossing, backcrossing, mating, breeding, and possibly marrying?
 * 3) Planed or planned
 * 4) Bead

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 17


 * 1) Use of ¡ and ¿ in New World languages
 * 2) Strange grammar in Bunyan
 * 3) Are these nouns?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 18


 * 1) loneliness in social setting
 * 2) What's like like?
 * 3) "Slash my hooves"
 * 4) "Remembered of"?

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 19


 * 1) Verbs of electoral motion
 * 2) Healths
 * 3) Words for "not-the-capital"
 * 4) Can't/Can
 * 5) Brunei
 * 6) Ghost/Phantom
 * 7) "After going to the store, I came home"

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 20


 * 1) pronominal verbs french list website
 * 2) "All best"
 * 3) Are there any English-English dictionaries available in DAISY audio book format?
 * 4) Exact translation in English

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 21


 * 1) What language is this?
 * 2) Term for female chairman

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 22


 * 1) The 'th' sound in Ghana
 * 2) Vault term origins wanted
 * 3) Chinese dialects
 * 4) Seeing her reminds you of someone?
 * 5) 么 and 麽

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 23


 * 1) What does -teng mean in Ghanaian surnames?
 * 2) Charities
 * 3) Analyze/Analyse
 * 4) Family Relations and In-Laws

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 24


 * 1) Is a music band singular or plural?
 * 2) /aw/
 * 3) Grammaticality of the sentence
 * 4) /aʊ/ is /au/ in some dialects?
 * 5) move up the appointment
 * 6) "Half as many again"
 * 7) She/He/It comes

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 25


 * 1) Stress in Russian surnames
 * 2) Is there a Global War On "Than"?
 * 3) Nisi Dominus Frustra
 * 4) "Meet with an accident"?
 * 5) cure vs. treatment vs. fixing vs. making _____ better vs. healing
 * 6) What's special about "predecease" in the grand scheme of things?

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 26


 * 1) "deliver" vs. "give" vs. "make" – a speech
 * 2) French help: Concorde memorial
 * 3) Tu and vous in French
 * 4) Tasse in German and French
 * 5) Which is older - "since biblical times" or "since ancient times"?
 * 6) about s' of the let's
 * 7) how do "will not" became to won't
 * 8) Reduplication

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 27


 * 1) When someone says they have a "3 hour commute", does that normally mean each way?
 * 2) Number of words in Japanese versus English
 * 3) Let it be

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 28


 * 1) Position of a question mark in quotes
 * 2) the meaning of 'ship'
 * 3) Is the term JW offensive?

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 29


 * 1) Italics for business names that also happen to be periodicals?
 * 2) If possible, please. Thank you.
 * 3) are medal, mettle, metal, and meddle perfect homonymns in american english?

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 30


 * 1) reading articles in several languages
 * 2) the lions are drinking
 * 3) A crow to pick
 * 4) Surreal vs Unreal