Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2014

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= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 9


 * 1) Is there a word for...

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 10


 * 1) burgle
 * 2) sughauli treaty
 * 3) Baby corn
 * 4) Negative comparatives
 * 5) Why do people ta
 * 6) Speaking in abbreviations
 * 7) Punt ermine lynx

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 11


 * 1) All combinations of Greek letters for transliteration
 * 2) How did Chinese names americanize/anglicize prior to the development of pinyin?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 12


 * 1) At chapter...
 * 2) Minutes and seconds in 19th century literature
 * 3) Latin and the letter J

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 13


 * 1) Logic of progressive and simple tenses
 * 2) Arguments
 * 3) y comercial
 * 4) "Out of hand"
 * 5) When did "regularly" come to occasionally mean "frequently"?

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 14


 * 1) Meaning of a song title
 * 2) How do you pronounce "azure"?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 15


 * 1) Czech:English translator/content editor
 * 2) Word-ending aversions
 * 3) Guys

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 16


 * 1) The trouble with tribunes
 * 2) Using the ampersand rather than the word "and"
 * 3) Pendo and pendeo

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 17


 * 1) Legislative, vs. Statutory
 * 2) Handwritten Italian lines
 * 3) British English term?
 * 4) Do they ever teach etymology in schools?
 * 5) Question about Chinese name
 * 6) Friday the start of the weekend ?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 18


 * 1) Arabic or Persian transcription request
 * 2) Referring to a Polish husband-wife pair by a single surname
 * 3) Tibetan text transcription request
 * 4) Formating Russian image files so that they appear in English Wikis

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 19


 * 1) Latin caption of a 1669 engraving of Edward Coke

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 20


 * 1) What’s the difference between ‘se le dio’ and ‘se lo dio?
 * 2) Clutching genitals at night
 * 3) Help with some slightly vulgar German please.
 * 4) Big country/big city
 * 5) “None will level on the line” meaning

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 21


 * 1) "VIC" in German?
 * 2) Balloon poster
 * 3) Tempting fate (three times?)
 * 4) You can tune a piano...
 * 5) get carried away

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 22


 * 1) "Well good"?

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 23


 * 1) "Just because ‹something› doesn't mean ‹something›"
 * 2) Question about tenses
 * 3) /ʌ/

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 24


 * 1) Words for geographical divisions
 * 2) Are there food terms for all the races?
 * 3) Translation of French words by sound?
 * 4) Calvinist and Reformed
 * 5) Omitting the article in descriptions in German
 * 6) Indian language documents (possibly Hindi?)
 * 7) Why "welter" in Welterweight?

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 25


 * 1) Mother-in-law suite synonym ?
 * 2) Gaelic translation

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 26


 * 1) estado
 * 2) 'Taking a backseat to....'
 * 3) archaic terms returning to common usage
 * 4) Accent that mixes the r sound and w sound?
 * 5) Punjabi translation help

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 27


 * 1) Chinese language and gender-neutrality
 * 2) Surrey accent?
 * 3) Latin book names
 * 4) Old Prussian language
 * 5) Mc and Mac names

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 28


 * 1) Khmer in Chinese
 * 2) Weird symbols seen in a decoration in Bratislava
 * 3) Word
 * 4) "Very good, my lord"

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 29


 * 1) Ottoman
 * 2) Relatives
 * 3) Siblings question
 * 4) Can "base" mean "backing track" in Spanish?

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 September 30


 * 1) Text between Chapters
 * 2) Slovak language question