Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2009
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October 1[edit]
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October 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 2
- Use of IPA for general purposes
- CV Objective
- I need help writing a romantic letter - a clever one
- Requesting translation from a Cyrillic-alphabet language, almost certainly Russian
- Geico gekko
- is there a verb tense (in any language) that does all three of these at the same time?
October 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 3
- List of 1000 most common French words
- Monthly anniversary called "Mensiversary"
- Why is there a J in 'Juventus'?
- Expats using local words even if there is an English equivalent
October 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 4
October 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 5
- Help me with this report
- Bbiblical book abbreviations in northern European languages
- IPA mouth shapes
- How to write IPA by hand.
- Ordinary words suddenly become strange and unfamiliar?
- Looking for a language with the following two attributes:
October 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 6
- Word for people worried about current moral decay
- IPA question
- Punctuation
- The two pronunciation systems of J and Y
October 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 7
- The missing Arlésienne
- Slang word for "understand" with sci-fi origin
- Learning an African language for "fun"
- words translated to Spanish
October 8[edit]
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October 9[edit]
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October 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 10
- Gallus gallus
- "contract conclusion" meaning entering into vs. finishing a contract?
- Translation from
Polish (?)Bulgarian
October 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 11
October 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 12
- Term for scholarly or literary "detective work"
- What is a word?
- Off
- "0.57 second" or "0.57 seconds"?
October 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 13
October 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 14
- Is there any living language, other than English, which makes a full distinction between: "in", "at", "to"?
- What are the easiest natural languages for studying by non-natives?
- Is there any English word having double-h, except for "withhold" (and its derivatives, e.g. withheld etc.)?
October 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 15
- "Oink Oink" in Greek
- Unknown chinese fabric item
- The quality of being altruistic
- Yet another German question - (be)fragen
- For fun only (macro-areal feature?)
- Frances
- Japanese translation of martial arts title
October 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 16
- Boccaccio
- Off with his/her/their head(s)!
- Enjoying someone's support
- Third cousin twice removed
- Perfect anagrams of notable people's names
- Old English words
October 17[edit]
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October 18[edit]
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October 19[edit]
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October 20[edit]
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October 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 21
- Unfortunate or intentional?
- Origin and explanation of common definitions of Atheism
- german spelling
- Pronunciation of River Lugg
- The new Great Vowel Shift
- Italian to English Translation
October 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 22
- Seminal architect
- german math translation
- British Dialect Question.
- What does वृन्दावन क्षाम mean?
- Spoken ambiguity
October 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 23
- Need translation
- A term for little things
- drug dealer referral
- wikipedia etiquette
- program of c
- 1984
- English Umlaut?
October 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 24
- Is there a word for this:
- Old Irish pronunciations
- Swadesh-type list
- Toward
- read and write
- Maghrebi Arabic Translation?
- Igor Kurchatov
- (Old) German surname
- Horse A was "foaled by" horse B
October 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 25
- Circumbobulate
- Pronunciation of Grzegorczyk (Polish)
- French nasal vowels
- Pluralisation of sports teams
October 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 26
- Umlauts
- English punctuation here
- Making Little Words From Big Words
- How many Czars?
- 'Honeypot' in German?
October 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 27
- Rolling Rs
- Welsh pronunciation
- Comic
- Chinese
- Hebrew transliteration
- Fixing errors
- Filmology
- Medial consonant clusters in Spanish
October 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 28
October 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 29
- "Cntr + Alt + Del situation"
- Short latin phrase
- Lofty Latin
- voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ in the Piedmontese language
- Ares I-X
- Kara
October 30[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 30
- How does Admiral Masorin's name translate and is it Ukrainian?
- Pronunciation of Ernestine
- English - Meaning of "separatism"
- Chinese Sentences Translation
- Two pronunciation questions
- Finnish auxiliary verbs