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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 1

  1. Desert planet in Japanese
  2. Holmes, homes
  3. The larger woman
  4. WHICH ONE

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 2

  1. 'All female band' or 'All-female band'
  2. Bad Friday
  3. "Another" and "other" in legal provisions

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 3

  1. Clash of ofs
  2. Computer art scene groups' names
  3. Abbreviation
  4. Verb usage
  5. Why are penises called "cocks"?

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 4

  1. Reading figures of section
  2. "Tragedy" as generic term for misfortune or disaster
  3. "Cowboy" builder?
  4. How do you translate "故鄉" in Chinese into English?
  5. American pronunciation of foreign names

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 5

  1. He is beside himself.
  2. Phonetically

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 6

  1. Etymology of "This is why we can't have nice things"
  2. German garb, early 1940s
  3. Auto / Otto
  4. Ignis/Lapis
  5. Oronym

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 7

  1. Welsh
  2. Getting on famously
  3. Hebrew and Arabic
  4. Fluffy McFluffersons
  5. "The --- that dared to be"?
  6. Conjugating verbs

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 8

  1. Different people have different tastes
  2. Sprachbund
  3. Translation from French into English
  4. Is there really such a thing as the "Jewish Bible"?
  5. Past tense words

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 9

  1. People from Krasnoyarsk

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 10

  1. Traduttore, traditore!
  2. Pretty Woman, or Rich guy who likes cheap hookers?

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 11

  1. Help with article on Japanese subject
  2. Korean syllables
  3. SUV (pronunciation)
  4. South African English word "moltrein"
  5. Pronunciation of some French names
  6. I look for one word

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 12

  1. Looking for a German expert with a lot of time on their hands
  2. Correct terminology
  3. searching for meaning of a word

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 13

  1. es
  2. Correct English? "such nicer"
  3. Gender
  4. Antonym
  5. Japanese translation
  6. Japanese
  7. German exonims
  8. Demolished building
  9. Eye of the Tiger lyrics

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 14

  1. Is there a larger variation of the Sator Square?
  2. long word
  3. Definition
  4. plural of word
  5. Name of ideoligical conflict of the 20th century?
  6. Hawaiian diacritical use not explained
  7. Puzzling use of "people"
  8. List of Simplified Chinese Characters

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 15

  1. Use of to
  2. Italian pronunciations
  3. Expeditious expeditions
  4. Spoken parenthesis in a language
  5. Mark Antony
  6. Looking for (free) Coptic and/or Aramaic translation

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 16

  1. Chinese saying
  2. Colloquial American English:Lifts
  3. JapaneseChinese Translation: Fruity Oaty Bars
  4. propaganda leaflets in library books
  5. "Great Scott" and similar phrases that mention first names
  6. Spoken language regional accent
  7. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/File:ISO_639_Icon_co.svg

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 17

  1. Japanese sentences
  2. The condition of talking with Sinebots
  3. Malling
  4. Irish (Gaeilge): Saor & Daor

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 18

  1. agō
  2. Romanian names
  3. Head scratching
  4. Polish names

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 19

  1. French translation
  2. Freida Pinto
  3. English possessives of French names ending in silent -s
  4. Italian sentence
  5. Slovenian B - German labiodental correspondence
  6. Real estate
  7. Japanese island demonyms

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 20

  1. Usage
  2. Names in Foreign Languages
  3. Italian equivalent of "Sieg Heil" and similar

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 21

  1. english grammar
  2. To update
  3. Pronunciation of "route"
  4. German words that rhyme with "Strand"

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 22

  1. Italian translation
  2. Translation

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 23

  1. Urdu newspaper, need volume number
  2. Publication of The Last Answer

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 24

  1. simple french
  2. "Facts Of Interest"
  3. Domain specificity
  4. IPA software
  5. "No problem"
  6. Ironic "manage"

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 25

  1. Etymology
  2. monospace (fixed-width) East Asian characters same as Latin width?
  3. 'Correct' English
  4. Language identification
  5. Malayalam bot message
  6. IPA

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 26

  1. Double possessives and relative clauses
  2. What's kimbling?
  3. Hyphens in organizations and place names
  4. "Fast As I Can" or "Fast as I Can"
  5. avec versus en utilisant

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 27

  1. "nearly avoiding crash"
  2. Gay dog
  3. Parts of a sentence

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 28

  1. Animal naming customs
  2. English language help.
  3. Is "virtually" proper encyclopedic language?
  4. What does the word "Macaulish" mean?
  5. Black Americans/African Americans
  6. Translation
  7. Hindi Language
  8. French dog names

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 29

  1. Am I dumb? English as a second language
  2. Russian
  3. Is there a word meaning "What there is and how much there is of it"?
  4. Nepali translation help
  5. science

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 30

  1. Would be
  2. Translate the Latin Phrase: "Turn Quantity Into Quality"
  3. USA and Canada
  4. Words spelled exactly the same way in different languages, but with entirely different meanings
  5. grammar
  6. what is an emergency door cock?
  7. Native language
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