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January 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 1

  1. good name for the place where bounties are posted?
  2. A question about some Chinese text
  3. Rhymes

January 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 2

  1. Por/Para vs. Pour/Par
  2. Swedish surnames ending in -ius
  3. Swedish book title
  4. Word for the pre-sunrise counterpart of afterglow

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 3

  1. ______ with a human face
  2. Translation - Latin into English.
  3. Gnome
  4. Is text amended or emended?

January 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 4

  1. In the three-thirty?
  2. "Dem Deutschen Volke"

January 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 5

  1. Asore watasha?
  2. Linguistics meta-question
  3. Kaspersky Antivirus Services Could Not Start
  4. Chinese name with possible Arabic origin
  5. Question about Russian word
  6. Everyday-everday?
  7. Terms like "Victorian"
  8. Kanji variants

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 6

  1. A N P
  2. Mandarin
  3. Use of 'besides' at the beginning of a sentence
  4. Copulae and predicates
  5. Don's Plum's meaning
  6. Not a back-formation?

January 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 7

  1. Not quite homonyms, homophones or homographs
  2. Which one is correct? (if any)
  3. "Obsoletized" Adjectives
  4. Word starting with "Dimihi...."
  5. phytoxygraphique
  6. Canadian French
  7. Jour vs. journée
  8. Origin of the French pronunciation of "gn"

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 8

  1. un mitte??
  2. Taiwanese/Mandarin mix?
  3. Romeka - modern Greek dialect said to resemble Ancient Greek
  4. adjective or adverb phrase
  5. Chinese help - bank branch
  6. Le Carré d'Encre

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 9

  1. Catalan and Spanish
  2. "Swag"?
  3. German idiom
  4. Suppletive plurals

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 10

  1. Subject/predicate question.
  2. Romance languages
  3. Is "nobody" singular or plural?
  4. german sentence help
  5. Expand Russian request
  6. written symbol in English, French, other languages

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 11

  1. St John
  2. Masters degree - correct use of apostrophes
  3. Document received by mothers of killed soldiers
  4. Réales / realism
  5. OED is free for a few weeks
  6. "Recently I met" vs. "recently, I met"

January 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 12

  1. Por vs para
  2. Latin translation required
  3. "warfighter"
  4. Can somebody please explain this poem?

January 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 13

  1. Danish translation
  2. SVO
  3. Tamil stuff
  4. Capitalization of typeface group names
  5. How is "apartheid" pronounced?
  6. Etymology of the French word "physicien"
  7. is vs are
  8. Is "guttiness" a word?
  9. Thème vs. thême (Fr.)

January 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 14

  1. Turkic languages and Cantonese/Mandarin Comparison
  2. The pressure is...
  3. "-wise" vs. "-ise"/"ize"

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 15

  1. Latin to English translation at "Robert Hues"
  2. Live and In Concert
  3. Objective of resume.
  4. "On the one side... on the other..." in Italian

January 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 16

  1. Biased question?
  2. sex ed test question
  3. Qu'ran

January 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 17

  1. Possible error on Seine
  2. Latin declension of "nomen"
  3. Mathematics and software for linguists
  4. Wikipolicy concerning use of the gender-neutral "singular they"

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 18

  1. German - sealed envelope
  2. Linguistic future
  3. Corridor coach
  4. Grammar

January 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 19

  1. Brain /Tongue
  2. American English.
  3. Kanji variants
  4. Rabbits' habits and rebels' pebbles
  5. Malay question
  6. Homophonic sentences?
  7. Practise, practice

January 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 20

  1. Allophone?
  2. Meaning of Czech name: Ořešila
  3. (Japanese)

January 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 21

  1. Swedish pronunciation
  2. Pronunciation: name "Crooijmans" of person from Netherlands
  3. Hyphened word
  4. Integral
  5. schwa
  6. Danish Pronunciations and Immigrant Name Changes
  7. Language speaker question
  8. On the excellence of accents

January 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 22

  1. Latin etymology of the word "conscious"
  2. Mountainous area
  3. Character for dental clicks
  4. What are these palatal consonants?

January 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 23

  1. Sith
  2. Can someone translate this Indian phrase?
  3. Why is the word "doubt" being substitued for "question"?
  4. Leaning languages for free

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 24

  1. Japanese つ and っ
  2. Chinese question
  3. Translation to Latin please?
  4. What does "revirado" mean?
  5. ...!
  6. 提舉司
  7. Food word question

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 25

  1. 'I Am a Jelly Donut'
  2. Åborätt
  3. "There is" vs. "There are"
  4. Question about "The small number of people who know grammar"
  5. Eszett

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 26

  1. Where is the joke here?
  2. Gloki?
  3. ... not! (sarcasm)

January 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 27

  1. Superlatives
  2. Gungywamp
  3. Is there a word for this?
  4. Euphemism and dysphemism for "visiting a prostitute"
  5. foreign language translations of current articles in English
  6. US English
  7. Disgust
  8. Word for a word that English has borrowed from another language

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 28

  1. Pronunciation of German name
  2. Another Japanese language question: 思考停止
  3. The genesis of language
  4. Comprising

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 29

  1. Critical period for language acquisition
  2. French
  3. Atmoshphare & Enviroment
  4. Translation help

January 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 30

  1. Norwegian text, may you help me please?

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 31

  1. Looking for a word, again
  2. Hen ba ix xia jao o ho ho ho
  3. Spenneberg Surname
  4. What does this mean?
  5. Correctly presenting a bracketed phrase