Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2008
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September 1
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- how to say various romantic things in Latin
- Cause célèbre
- It's not its', it's its...
- Crisis of confidence regarding a sentence involving "had" and "have"
September 2
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- Japanese change of address postcard
- Secret Code
- Per aspera ad confusion
- Latin pronunciation
- Which is correct
September 3
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- "Case" in ancient languages
- Nynorsk grammar
- Ashkenazic pronunciation in Israeli Hebrew?
- Colon_Township,_Michigan
- Other word
- D sounding like j and t sounding like tch
- Americans
- "Results" speak
- Filipino
September 4
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September 5
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- Scunthorpe
- Translation requested
- French instruction videos
- Corrupted Spanish word for misprinted/overstock clothing worn by impoverished citizens in Latin America?
- Translation assistance request
September 6
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September 7
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September 8
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- stairs
- Ancient Greek Question: Plural of Maimaktes
- What is the adjectival form of the word 'library'?
- Wording Problems
- an exemplary "role model"
- was there a memo diffused?
- Eventuate
- opposite of honorific
- Trying to find a certain punctuation mark
September 9
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September 10
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- Business letter with multiple signatures
- "ate" to rhyme with "wet" or "wait"?
- Hiro in 1671
- Harriot
- Issue (periodical and newspaper terminology)
- The recent wide adoption of incorrect pronunciation
- Ь/Ъ?
- Japanese
September 11
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- Quenya
- Latin: Hierosylma est perditus. Or perdita?
- Translations
- avoiding a split infinitive
- Another Russian question
- Areas of study and capitalization
- Sentence structure; particples, gerunds... all that sort of stuff
- latinise this please?
- "nannettikafruit" / "nannetticafruit" (nanettikafruit)
September 12
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- Can somebody translate this into Latin?
- Transliteration brick wall
- catarct suregry (phaco)
- Grammatical case – sample sentences?
- The origin of the use of the phrase "head to head" to indicate a contest
- frat
- French pen pal
- Comma after ellipsis in dialogue?
- Tamil and Chinese words
- Help with Deciphering... Something
September 13
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- spanish and english
- Dolores del Rio
- Efficiency of languages
- prefix Mrs
- Should the pronunciation of "en-" prefix be "en" or "in"? And what is the correct pronunciation of words like "economics" and "essential"?
- date certain versus certain date
- Grammar question
- Periods (full stops) at the end of abbreviations
September 14
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- Plural of prima ballerina/assoluta
- Dates
- Pad
- Unclear Latin translation
- Royal de Luxe French translation needed please
- "Steaming" rice
September 15
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- How do you say "weeeeeee" in Latin?
- The surname Wałęsa without diacritics
- Latin
- Bridges
- British football (i.e. soccer) players with names that sound rude in foreign languages?
September 16
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- corporomental
- Sow and Sew
- Is it right?
- Help me identify my vacation photos
- Capitalisation in Titles
- He is also a man used to having enormous clout.
- Indian caps
September 17
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- Upside
- 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?
- IPA font
September 18
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- Spoken Language Recordings?
- definite article with proper nound
- Link to Esperanto humour story
- words that should mean the opposite
- Metric language question
September 19
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September 20
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- synthesis of the state of the art
- The State of the Union Address
- Grammar question regarding "help"
- Video Podcasts in ASL (American Sign Language)
- about the notice
- "Grammatically correct"
- Russian Decimals
September 21
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- past tense of a verb
- What's this called?
- origin of GRAPHOPHONIC
- Nuclear food
- how can i search for english phrases on wiki
- Japanese honorific -kakka
- French pronouns
- Chockomut
September 22
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September 23
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September 24
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- The origins of the term: Minding your Ps and Qs?
- environment and ecosystem
- Poised or composed? which word to use, or how to build the sentence?
- Chinese question
- Allow/permit
September 25
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- verbal adverb
- Question!
- A reference to heat
- Correct English?
- Pseudo-Chinese question
- Sentence Reconstruction
- Kgalema Motlanthe
- "Freshers Week" - noun as adjective vs. possessive 's
- Etymology of "Redeploy"
September 26
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- Block in avionics?
- Guate/ Cuate/ Watey language?
- "Drinking Cool Aid"
- U.S. Constitutional over-punctuation
- Idiomatic?
September 27
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- Spanish podcasts
- Son of a bitch
- arabic translations
- Meaning of Ingleby Barwick
- AP Stylebook?
- What type of logical argument is this?
- MLA citation for CJK names?
September 28
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- <ng> in Old English
- Synonym of required that starts with "A"
- Comparitives in other languages
- "What" instead of "that"
- normal/good/fine/etc.
September 29
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- Netherlands
- Puzzle Clue
- Terminology
- Proto-indo-European spoken out loud.
- Hoi Polloi
- Death suffix
- Latin translation
- requesition letter for an atm card
- Writing style forum
- Political term
- what age
- Request
- "Cheri" in English
- what is the meaning of the turkish word balim in english?
- whats your interpretation of this quote?
September 30
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