User:Wavelength/About languages/Wikipedia reference desk

Questions

2008

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 21#Symbols on Wiki globe

2009

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 13#Is OmegaWiki included in single user login?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 14#Why gravitate to antisocial language?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 5#Language proficiency displayed on one's person
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 17#Passover and Easter -- translations and etymologies
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 17#Choosing e-mail subject lines
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 17#Choosing section headings on Wikipedia talk pages and on Wikipedia Reference Desk pages
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 5#Language recognition by lip-reading
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 5#Language acquisition by heart transplant
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 5#Danish-language resources for the Climate Change Conference
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 14#Abbreviated form of numberless possessive noun
• (Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 24#Six days left and I'm still uncomfortable calling them the "ohs", "aughts" or "noughties". How about you?)
  • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 24#Names of decades, centuries, and millennia 1000 years ago

2010

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 14#Tamil அராலி (Araly?) and Tamil யாழ்ப்பாண நகரம் (Jaffna)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 15#"Xynthia" (origin and meaning)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 19#Words "than" and "then"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 28#Two-part title of book

Answers

2008 July

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 18#German questions
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 19#cousin éloigné?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 20#Pronunciation of Italian "giovane"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 21#Possessive case for inanimate objects
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 21#Italian Proverb
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 23#Explaining Indo-European syllables to Japanese people
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 23#Which Indo-European syllables for Japanese
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 24#Pronunciation of Italian "portafoglio"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 24#What language is this?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 26#Original
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 28#Some kind of -onym?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 28#How seriously is the linguistic community taking the Saphir-Whorf Hypothesis today?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 29#Need South Indian transcriptions for the word "Gautham"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 29#OO? 00?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 July 29#Pronuncation of letter 'v' in Esperanto

2008 August

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 1#Free dual language Spanish-English books
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 4#Term of endearment?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 4#The Commonest Words in the English Language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 4#Hash symbol as number
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 8#Biblical quotation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 8#Italian words for money: "denaro" or "soldi"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 12#Ist, IInd, IIIrd?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 13#English Grammar
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 22#French words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 August 23#Canine, vulpine, equine, etc.

2008 September

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 1#Crisis of confidence regarding a sentence involving "had" and "have"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 3#Americans
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 8#Eventuate
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 9#Verb
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 10#The recent wide adoption of incorrect pronunciation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 11#latinise this please?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 12#Can somebody translate this into Latin?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 12#catarct suregry (phaco)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 13#Efficiency of languages
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 13#date certain versus certain date
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 16#Sow and Sew
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 16#Capitalisation in Titles
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 17#I am looking for a term that is used to describe the time wasting practice of pronouncing an acronym that takes longer to pronounce than if one simply pronounced the words that were initialized?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 18#definite article with proper nound
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 19#Thinking in a second language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 20#Video Podcasts in ASL (American Sign Language)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 21#past tense of a verb
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 22#Latin? motto translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 23#Languarge / Plural Words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 24#environment and ecosystem
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 September 25#Kgalema Motlanthe

2008 October

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 27#Itinerant job?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 27#Adding extra letters to words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 28#Shorthand and ignorance
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 28#Salutations
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 28#Frequency of Initial Letters of the Alphabet worldwide or on wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 29#Russian Song Lyrics

2008 November

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 9#Ho hum he him, I smell the blood of a grammarian.
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 16#Avoiding questions without saying 'mind your own business'
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 17#Gamers
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 18#The term 'Consumer Inflation'
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 25#Middle lane
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 25#'Heave' offering ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 25#Pronounciation of Berkeley
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 26#'Reiterate'
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 November 26#Ditloid riddle

2008 December

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 6#Books of the Bible
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 9#Ration
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 9#Slave in Haitian Creole
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 9#Number of syllables
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 10#Latin translation request
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 14#English to Latin translation request
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 15#Use of "the" at the delicatessen
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 17#grammar question - it's a simple one so please answer me quickly!!!!!!
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 26#Are there words in other languages that cannot be translated into english?

2009 January

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 3#latin numbers declinability
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 4#Inconsistent pluralisation, and inconsistent spelling generally
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 6#Latin origin of the word 'limen' still relevant today?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 10#latin question about cases and time
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 11#File Translation Needed
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 12#No Question
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 17#Semi-decade?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 18#Standard Liberian English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 20#learning German
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 21#"Eckscape" versus "Escape"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 23#Why is the number two (2) written two different ways ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 26#Style guide for French spacing
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 27#Difference between ʌ and ə
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 30#Guessing authors country of origin from text

2009 February

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 2#Huddling together of words with very different meanings
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 5#relationship between sanskrit and hindi
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 6#Way to abbreviate "greats" in describing ancestors...
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 8#what words are you allergic to?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 10#Belt
• [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 12#Name [Why so many starting with J?]]] (see #Note 1)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 13#Words with exactly one rhyme
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 14#Latin word miramini
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 16#Writing Amharic by hand
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 18#French verb caracoler
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 19#Translation from French to English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 19#The dictionary
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 20#Who's down under?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 21#Question about the suffix "Jr."
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 24#Spanish punctuation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 24#A single preposition for both date and time
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 24#butler in spanish
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 February 28#Similar sounding terms?

2009 March

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 8#Communicating meaning with distant space aliens - no pictures allowed
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 8#pawing: Can a horse "paw" the ground?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 10#Radix malorum est cupiditas
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 12#Was/Were
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 13#Coptic/Greek Translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 13#ASL
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 15#Reverse dictionary ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 16#Gaoliang
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 17#The Red Sea - Mistranslation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 18#Ambiguously Middle Eastern/Indian/South Asian name?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 18#Currency symbol
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 22#Numerals in Khmer
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 22#Most ambiguous acronym
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 23#Dag Hammarskjold Pronunciation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 23#learning a new launguage
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 24#De-facto Chinese "dialect" language subcodes
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 24#reason ("God")
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 26#Plural
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 26#Playing cards together
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 28#Faspa
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 29#This needs polishing
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 30#What modifiers modify
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 30#word pronunciation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 31#For good or bad?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 31#"Settle in"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 31#Phesant = peasant?

2009 April

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 2#Hi-Hi and Tak-Tak (thankyou) > Icelandic
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 2#Using 을/를 in spoken Korean
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 3#period after first name?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 3#Abbreviations for first names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 6#A subordinated clause treated as a complete sentence
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 6#sub-national divisions
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 7#Plural of the noun "gas"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 9#French Translations
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 11#Ukrainian town name
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 12#language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 13#Christ is risen
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 13#French translations: 2
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 13#Seeking children's book for beginner learner of Italian
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 14#Letters of a word rearranged to make two words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 16#Linguistic Board
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 17#Is There A Word For Stories That Are Different But Have A Simlier Thing?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 19#French translations : 3
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 20#Plural of French Nouns
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 21#The A/Effect of A on B?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 22#Italian translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 24#Name
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 24#latin question on accusative and infinitive
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 25#Touting one's own works (figurative expression)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26#How do you write with a southern accent from the 1900 in Alabama?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26#strange different forms of the passive in English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26#Interesting sentence
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26#French Translations: 6
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26#Initials at the end of names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 26#5 vowels for operatic Italian?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 27#We want wikipedia pages in Bengali
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 27#Hebrew + English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 28#Mandarin Pronunciation of "@"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 28#a female mouse is a doe?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 28#Naming a baby boy
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 29#Estonian Given Names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 29#French slang
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 29#Incomparable crack
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 April 29#Bomb

2009 May

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 1#Help with English grammar
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 1#As it were
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 2#Mac and Mc surnames
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 2#Chinese word into English letters by pronunciation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 3#Foreign "u" in French
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 5#Insulation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 5#Language acquisition by heart transplant
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 7#Bureaucracy
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 7#Identify the humor?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 8#Space or not?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 8#Hindi and Rajasthani
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 11#What are the benefits of using tree structures in linguistic communications?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 11#Name of a grammatical structure
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 12#Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 12
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 12#Translation of 'non sequitur'
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 12#French Translations:7
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 14#Pronunciation: Names/Places ending on "-sham"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 19#German Wikipedia article
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 20#preventive or preventative?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 21#Pollack
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 23#New England Portuguese
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 23#Generic name for Aspirin-type medication
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 23#"An Eurostar train"; words starting with a vowel but a consonant sound
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 25#Old/Middle English meaning of Chel
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 26#Being "funny looking"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 26#Apostrophes
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 27#Whence came Jessica?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 28#En Dashes
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 28#Phrases and places
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 28#Different connotations of exclamations
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 28#"Efficiency" of different languages
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 29#What is Tampanian English?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 May 29#reading

2009 June

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 1#Vocab Lists
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 2#Phoneme /x/ in English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 2#Downtown, uptown
  • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 2#Long list of articles ("Downtown ..." and "Uptown ...")
  • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 2#Continuation of discussion
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 3#Correct word?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 3#What to call this grammatical construction
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 4#Readerly, writerly and painterly
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 4#Cousin's Daughter
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 4#corn/maize
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 4#"Bloß"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 5#definition of a Russian word
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 5#The length of dashes
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 5#Lithuanian translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 7#Latin: Niger vs Ater
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 7#Spanish pronunciation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 9#Inter/trans/pan
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 9#Cornish language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 9#Lorry or truck
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 10#Plural of media
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 10#Plural2singular
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 10#Latin Word For 'Volcano'
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 11#Allow vs. permit
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 11#South Africa and naming of nations
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 12#French accents in English usage
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 12#Names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 13#Eris Quod Sum
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 13#How is a double L pronounced in Spanish ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 13#What is this language/alphabet?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 14#"You" in Punjabi?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 15#Pam
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 15#Modern novels/authors in project Gutemberg/Librivox
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 15#Joan
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 15#Alphabetic Order
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 17#Cunjevoi
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 17#U and V
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 26#Lay and lie

2009 October

• (Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 16#Old English words)
  • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 16#Holy Ghost
    • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 16#Jehovah vs YHWH Sunday Night Smackdown
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 October 29#Ares I-X

2009 November

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 6#Term/name for different "flavors" of a (math) denotaton?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 6#Are these guillemets?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 6#Geographic appositives
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 7#Geographic appositives
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 7#Pronunciation of Italian (?) surname: Mucchi
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 7#1000 words of a language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 7#Latin and German
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 11#Van Gogh
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 12#Flour and Flower
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 13#would
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 14#How do English-speaking Canadians pronounce "Quebec"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 15#Pen (writing instrument)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 16#How do you pronounce years 2009, 2012 etc.. ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 16#Chain conundrums, anyone?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 21#What is the biggest language without its own Wikipedia?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 27#Use or nonuse of prepositions
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 28#IPA usage
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 28#Pronunciation of where and river
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 29#Datasets for phonetic and cognational analysis of natural languages.
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 30#'Cream' in coffee

2009 December

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 3#Single or double quotes when referring to a word
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 4#English Language Punctuation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 7#Style Guide
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 7#Preposition used for "street" or "square"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 7#Word help
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 9#Etymology
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 11#Basque translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 15#Unclusterable Spanish consonants
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 16#South-African Officials - difficult names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 21#Woman as an adjective
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 22#креатура (Russian! :)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 24#Six days left and I'm still uncomfortable calling them the "ohs", "aughts" or "noughties". How about you?
  • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 24#Names of decades, centuries, and millennia 1000 years ago
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 25#Dried eye fluid
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 25#Capitalization of pronoun "I"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 29#The names Ivan vs. Ioanno in Russian
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 December 30#Chinese

2010 January

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 1#Latin translation requested
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 3#Schtroumpf
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 5#Linguistic flags
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 7#Combinations of sounds that are hard to pronounce
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 7#Hear Samples of Spoken Languages Online
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 9#Longest English word with letters in alphabetical order
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 9#Pre-planned
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 10#Antique/Antiques
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 11#"Piange ... Il Telefono" (Italian song)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 12#Definition of OP
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 12#Is "accusee" acceptable?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 12#What's this sentence construction?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 13#"re" case
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 13#Pronounciation rule?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 13#Are ships feminine in American as they are in English ? And why ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 14#Numbers in Hindi
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 14#Equi-"height"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 15#Spanish subjunctive tense
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 17#"the well"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 18#В in Russian
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 21#an injust unjustice
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 26#Weird verb that can't be done but is only done
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 27#English words with several "th"s
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 January 31#Turkish Alphabet Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac

2010 February

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 2#Word use prerogative
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 2#super, hyper and ultra
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 4#Devaluation of "snub"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 4#Native American Greetings
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 4#alternate definition for asynchronous learning
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 5#English AO words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 5#Metroad
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 8#Asking about Spanish homework
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 9#Ukrainian translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 11#Rhyming free verse
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 12#Etymology of "fisherman"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 12#English literature
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 12#Mathieu Bastareaud
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 12#Do countries have gender?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 13#Russian translation please?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 13#Where do I start with Elizabethan English?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 13#Phrases & expressions in English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 15#bangla-english translator
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 15#Word meaning "line in a play"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 16#Quick translation question
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 16#A greek nose for the future
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 17#place name and family name
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 17#what is the official term for
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 18#Is "Alight here" plain English?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 18#Portuguese vowel letters with tilde
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 18#Using us vs. we
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 19#My hovercraft is full of eels
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 21#Buryat and Mongolian (Khalka)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 22#"Mexico City" in various languages
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 24#"A Future Fair for All"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 25#Why do women say girlfriend?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 25#Schmazi ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 26#context is an indespensible deternimant of meaning in a text, justify this against cognitive and referential interpretation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 26#Empty Set
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 26#Demonyms
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 27#How many words does French have?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 27#Shocked, dumbfounded, perplexed, stupified, open-mouthed, "huh?"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 27#Some Italian Part 2
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 February 28#English into IPA transcription?

2010 March

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 3#Russian Runes
  • Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 3#Modern reforms of Russian Runes
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 3#Hollyburn
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 4#borrowed words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 5#Universal Words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 8#ISO Code For The Manchu Alphabet
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 8#In order
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 8#Decorative Typographical Symbol
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 9#I need some help with Hebrew please
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 12#Greek letter that looks like an "L"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 13#A word that denotes the concept of incorrectly claiming (illegal) discrimination
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 13#Comparative in English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 13#Italianate
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 14#"KN RBL YMB" in summary
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 15#Sapir-Whorf and Orwell
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 16#can you be very good at reading and writing a language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 16#What Wikipedia projects have well-established standards for language-specific transliteration?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 17#Autist
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 18#Charles The Fat
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 18#"dirty laundry"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 20#Decimal numbers in French
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 21#Resources for listening to Chinese
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 22#Vowels in English, French, and German
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 22#Latin to English translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 23#Etymology of "broke"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 23#Arabic/asian(?) symbol on back of $10 bill USD
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 24#Delight, opposite of de-light
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 25#Is "If I would be rich I would buy a car." correct  ?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 26#бакалжан
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 29#Texts in German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese with mouse-over pop-ups featuring translation or grammatical information
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 30#Must and can
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 31#French
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 31#Column-row order

2010 April

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 3#Clash of ofs
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 4#American pronunciation of foreign names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 8#Is there really such a thing as the "Jewish Bible"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 10#Traduttore, traditore!
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 11#I look for one word
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 12#Correct terminology
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 13#German exonims
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 14#plural of word
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 14#Puzzling use of "people"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 15#Expeditious expeditions
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 16#"Great Scott" and similar phrases that mention first names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 16#http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/File:ISO_639_Icon_co.svg
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 18#agō
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 18#Head scratching
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 19#English possessives of French names ending in silent -s
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 21#To update
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 24#Domain specificity
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 24#IPA software
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 26#Hyphens in organizations and place names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 26#"Fast As I Can" or "Fast as I Can"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 26#avec versus en utilisant
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 27#"nearly avoiding crash"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 27#Parts of a sentence
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 28#Hindi Language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 28#French dog names
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 29#Am I dumb? English as a second language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 29#Is there a word meaning "What there is and how much there is of it"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 29#Nepali translation help

2010 May

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 1#Hospitalised
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 1#Most "comlpex" ("complicated") Chinese character. Any suggestions?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 1#Another thing about hospitals...
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 2#Minimum Sound Range for Human Language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 3#Short for 'Jeremy'?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 5#A E I O U
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 7#Invitation to help me out with my German
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 9#What does Не атрымалася надзейна выявіць зыходны мова mean
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 10#Proboscis
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 10#Learning a new language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 10#Spanish word for bottle
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 11#Kechemeche
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 12#Xenophily
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 13#Consent versus assent
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 13#Translation into "small" languages
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 15#I needs some words
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 19#Minimal pairs distinguished by stress
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 19#Learn polish
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 20#Doodah
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 26#dictionary
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 26#"Is is"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 29#Math word complaints
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 29#Words with no relevant grammatical function
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 30#Pronunciation of the Italian name Giorgio
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 31#Whistling and humming
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 May 31#origin of a proverb

2010 June

• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 1#Resonances??
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 1#Spoken idiosyncrasy
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 2#Children learning multiple languages
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 2#Why is there not a word "firmen"?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 6#Latin language
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 9#Extravagances and extravaganzas
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 10#Language used in the KJV Bible
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 10#Spanish transcription and translation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 13#Morgen
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 14#The phonetic transcription /ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/ (Manitoba)
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 14#Unusual use of "The" for a German speaker of English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 14#German pronunciation of s and ess-tsett
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 16#Mandarin in Japanese
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 16#Word Usage
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 18#What is so special about accents, that makes them so difficult?
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 18#-er vs. -eer in English
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 19#Garden or yard
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 20#Is it offensive to say "Kill the lights?"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 24#term for hypocritical situation
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 27#Pronouncing s like sh, e.g. in "last" year - pronounced like: "lasht" year, in some American accents.
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 29#Use of "me"
• Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 June 30#Japanese

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