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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 1

  1. French Michel
  2. Ancient Greek translation?
  3. Template:Consonants
  4. Capitalisation of noun
  5. essay
  6. Using the word "superlative"
  7. Requesting Translation from antique to modern English.

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 2

  1. "7" as a letter

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 3

  1. Messed-up Unicode
  2. The origin of the word "pipa"
  3. Capitalisation [Googling a term in biochemistry]
  4. "In the tank"
  5. "Find it curious"

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 4

  1. Age/aged 18
  2. i need prepation sheets of english / secondary school/ Algeria
  3. how do I get to the lowercase numbers?
  4. Road map for peace
  5. Articulating in writing?
  6. Untitled
  7. In addition to 5 feet 10 inches, I have all my hair.
  8. Una pregunta
  9. Learning about other cultures
  10. Latin phras:e question

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 5

  1. Welsh lyrics

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 6

  1. English to Latin or vice versa translation site?
  2. Ant and ent words (mainly adjectives)
  3. Redundant clichés
  4. tot seffens in belgium mean?
  5. Native speakers of British English needed!
  6. Lunch horn
  7. synonym for thankful
  8. Children learning/speaking tonal languages

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 7

  1. Pronunciation question: "Español"
  2. languages of scholarship and science?
  3. origin of phrase, "little pictures (pitchers?) have big ears"
  4. Nonsense sounds of English

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 8

  1. What makes hash so special it gets its own verb?
  2. "Something for the weekend"

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 9

  1. Ho hum he him, I smell the blood of a grammarian.
  2. Animal groupings and sexual identitites
  3. Question [global financial crisis]

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 10

  1. Software to analyse word usage
  2. Translation into English of letters written by Antoine Gaubil

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 11

  1. Querer
  2. use of word "squat" as in "squatted by the homeless"
  3. Latin help

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 12

  1. are any words a pair (like the article a/an) but with the form chosen for whether a vowel or consonant sound PRECEDES it?
  2. DMZ우유 -- are there cows in the DMZ?
  3. BUSINESS LETTER

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 13

  1. Japanese Calligraphy
  2. minimal pairs?
  3. English to Spanish Translation
  4. J→E: 感動の定期演奏会バトル
  5. How do you pronounce "Aegeus"?
  6. Did X use the word Y?
  7. Poems about insanity
  8. Opium Wars

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 14

  1. Edit help Kemps Creek, New South Wales
  2. Laptops vs. notebooks
  3. Burglar's tool
  4. How to improve communication skills in spanish and english language.
  5. interdental fricative
  6. May I have a word, please ?

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 15

  1. seeking a defintion
  2. Bangladesh
  3. House style?
  4. "Non silba sed anthar"

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 16

  1. Classical Greek Literature in Original
  2. seeking a word by providing a definition
  3. Generic term for "Weeble"
  4. Obsession with mice
  5. Lamina
  6. Double "L" in Spanish
  7. Japanese dictionary online
  8. Avoiding questions without saying 'mind your own business'
  9. Extras in name company

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 17

  1. Gamers
  2. German pronunciation of Streusel
  3. "he" and "she" nouns
  4. Japanese automatic translation
  5. Gender or sex?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 18

  1. Simple German translation
  2. Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL)
  3. Language and meaning of Brooklyn seal
  4. Questions on slang
  5. why do we capitalize the word 'I'?
  6. grammar
  7. The term 'Consumer Inflation'

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 19

  1. How are Arabic names sorted in telephone books?
  2. Pronunciation
  3. Pronunciation of Italian surname
  4. Tense when refering to fiction
  5. Icelandic pronunciation
  6. Chad languages
  7. Arabic name for a Palestinian man?

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 20

  1. "Full of p and v"
  2. grammar/prepositions
  3. Connotation in another language
  4. Keep it simple, STUPID?
  5. another way to say gag gift
  6. self referential spoonerism
  7. The works done by Ullysses are...
  8. French: le coeur au bord des yeux
  9. Inverted question mark

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 21

  1. Japanese Collective Nouns
  2. Pronunciation of Maori
  3. Is there a name for this distinction?
  4. "Wissembourg Gap" en français
  5. Cipher

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 22

  1. Clear as Mud

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 23

  1. Chinese: Stroke order for 〇 (líng)
  2. is there a predominant gender for nouns in Romance languages?
  3. Do bilingual people claim to think in any particular language?
  4. how did people cope with the language barrier in coloniial/ military settings etc?
  5. "Pricked off"

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 24

  1. German "Kunststoffdispersion"
  2. Post-WWII memorial text in Italian
  3. Learning French Online
  4. Starting sentences with 'which' and 'but'
  5. Hyphen ["break-ages"?]
  6. IPA - /ˌjuːnənˈsɛptiəm/
  7. 'Collectible'

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 25

  1. Middle lane
  2. Norwegian Writing
  3. English to Arabic
  4. Rewording sentence
  5. 'Heave' offering ?
  6. Pronounciation of Berkeley

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 26

  1. Character
  2. Japanese translation
  3. Primary Sources concerning the Mongolian Empire's Legacy
  4. 'Reiterate'
  5. Ditloid riddle
  6. Looking for a word
  7. Lotus in a Pond

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 27

  1. Need translation, if that's OK
  2. "Our team are always available"
  3. Spanish: "el café de por la tarde"
  4. A SSL or an SSL?
  5. The origins of an 'X' symbolising kiss

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 28

  1. Feminized form of Radecký
  2. Active Voice
  3. Persons vs People
  4. meaning of jewish word
  5. References to foreign languages
  6. Old English "to be"
  7. Help me find Japanese engineering book

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 29

  1. war on terror
  2. Clarification [Chinese Muslims' ancestor, in BBC documentary]

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 30

  1. "s' ans s's" usage
  2. Racine translation from Sartre
  3. English to Chinese translation
  4. Barfußroute
  5. Hungarian language query: Dolgozók vs Munkás
  6. German words
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