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December 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 1

  1. praise words
  2. English accent in other languages
  3. How you talk to people

December 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 2

  1. The 5 languages closest to English
  2. Most 'neutral' accent?
  3. Actors reproducing English language dialects/accents from across the Atlantic (or Pacific)
  4. American vs British

December 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 3

  1. german translation q
  2. Why is abbreviation such a long word?
  3. Latin translation, please

December 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 4

  1. Pants
  2. I would rather you answer this question correctly
  3. UN Resolutions in English
  4. Shorthand?
  5. attributable
  6. Latinise this title please?
  7. Wash your mouth out!

December 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 5

  1. Encyclopedic Value
  2. English: adjectives: people:
  3. Regarding the phrase "in which"
  4. acronyms
  5. Organic and non-organic military and police ?
  6. Is it condescending to use the phrase: "at any rate"?
  7. Beowulf
  8. Word conveyor?

December 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 6

  1. failure

December 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 7

  1. Chinese characters
  2. Is there a culture where it is ordinary for people to know 5 languages?
  3. Austrian postal service slogan
  4. Query about Flemish
  5. Cunning linguists required
  6. origin of the phrase "the whole nine yards" 24.233.154.150 (talk) 23:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

December 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 8

  1. "payed out"?
  2. To perfect in French
  3. Pidgin

December 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 9

  1. Closed word classes
  2. Need catchy title for English report

December 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 10

  1. Pronounce this way... or...
  2. Comma Use
  3. Run like a welshman
  4. Proper case for "post scriptum"

December 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 11

  1. Heraldry
  2. Epithets / Epithet-names
  3. from Latin
  4. Will you help my son and I/me solve the problem of the useage of the words "I/me"?
  5. "apotheosis"

December 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 12

  1. A general comment and suggestion
  2. Letter head
  3. Japanese help
  4. Gorge / Ravine / Rift / Canyon etc.
  5. What gets exhumed?
  6. Jaettu maa

December 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 13

  1. Poetry Punctuation
  2. Looking for a word meaning "devoid of authority."
  3. Vocab Qeustion
  4. Using multiple titles for names

December 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 14

  1. Help creating page in Hebrew
  2. Italics
  3. Eclampsia
  4. Epi-something
  5. Ich fing Feuer

December 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 15

  1. œ
  2. Terms 'financially established" "financially healthy"
  3. presence of digraphs cs and gs in Latin
  4. Reduced use of case endings, Russian
  5. Addressing a female priest
  6. Entrepreneurs and polyglots
  7. Proper use of semi-colon?

December 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 16

  1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 16#|]]
  2. Mandarin Immersion Programs
  3. Pronounciation of Gisele Bündchen
  4. Translation needed of Inscription to the sacrifice of the Swiss Guard
  5. Usefulness of the Chinese writing system

December 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 17

  1. Hindi and Tamil
  2. Translation, Please
  3. Hebrew use of the words "hummus" and "za'atar"
  4. Continuation of my prev. question
  5. Hardest language
  6. at/in usage in this sentence
  7. Bestevend?
  8. How much does morpheme:syllable ratio vary, why, and with what result?
  9. Book Critique Help
  10. meaning of a Welsh word
  11. LAKE

December 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 18

  1. Gender proportions
  2. Japanese Names
  3. Examples of Conflict/Irony in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  4. Person who knows the most languages
  5. Turkish and Arabic
  6. What language can communicate the most information, while using the least amount of ink?
  7. Verb tense
  8. Name for terms that are clarifying sub-classes of themselves
  9. Guten Tag (German adjective endings)

December 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 19

  1. A name for this use of language?
  2. Translation of Columbus monogram

December 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 20

  1. Verb tense follow-up
  2. What does Jahasra mean?
  3. Malt liquor in Dickens
  4. even used to mean the same
  5. suo moto
  6. Analogies
  7. WORDS WRITTEN IN MOSAIC?
  8. vide
  9. Association Football or Association football or association football?
  10. Stowd / Stoud
  11. what is the word for this
  12. Two words for Spanish

December 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 21

  1. French sailor
  2. Requesting translation of Spanish sentence
  3. counterpart of “blow job” for women

December 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 22

  1. spanish english translation
  2. Japanese translation
  3. Applied foreign languages vs. foreign languages

December 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 23

  1. IPA / Phonetic Spelling
  2. Goldfish
  3. components of verbs
  4. "Why" in German

December 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 24

  1. up to at least
  2. Macbeth

December 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 25

  1. Season's Greetings

December 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 26

  1. Microsoft Visio: Pronunciation?
  2. backed with (...) up vs. backed up with
  3. "Vague"

December 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 27

  1. What language is this?
  2. Form of exclamation
  3. -ity/-ness
  4. what is the sentence pattern?
  5. Russian spelling

December 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 28

  1. Bokeboke = ?
  2. Parts of speech
  3. Latin
  4. Hindi and Sanskrit

December 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 29

  1. Madayan
  2. Non-Israeli Jews and the Hebrew Language

December 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 30

  1. What is "Cholegague"?
  2. More Cyrillic transliteration

December 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 December 31

  1. Happy New Year in Japanese
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