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September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 2

1. Finnegan's wake translation
2. Nothing known about the man who ended WWII?
3. Chriki - surname
4. Attire
5. Pon Haus pronunciation

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 3

1. Set
2. Daydreaming at Night
3. Usage: suggest, recommend, advise + me
4. Looking for word

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 4

1. Can I say "that diffilcult period involved fear and hunger"?
2. Radio 4 piece referencing Washoe the Chimp's use of 'taboo' language
3. Than/then
4. Clover?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 5

1. duck for apples
2. What's the Spanish for

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 7

1. Pronunciation - Japanese
2. Tax haven and tax heaven
3. Ælfræd gréata?
4. German translated needed!
5. Translation from English into Manx?

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 8

1. List of words that have lost an un-suffixed form
2. What's a Hoople Head?
3. Won't a contraction of will not?
4. I just wanna know about the so called conversational participants
5. Hebrew translation, one sentence
6. Turkish name for Cyprus

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 9

1. Australian station-ery
2. The term "Photobook" in AE
3. French
4. Nonstandard words
5. Is there a guideline for expressing dates in formal scholarly papers?

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 10

1. Jeg snakker ikke norsk godt
2. synonyms
3. about "Müllers"
4. Chinese character question
5. hospitalize
6. Sino-Vietnamese place names
7. Help with Yorkshire accent
8. On the west vs. in the west

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 11

1. What does this mean?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 12

1. Improve a sentence
2. Passivization

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 13

1. Reading of a Japanese Character
2. got?
3. evangelism and proselytism
4. Don't buffalo me so much
5. Dulce et decorum...

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 14

1. Years spelt out
2. Punctuation required
3. L and H
4. Who Do You Trust?
5. "!" and "?" style choices???
6. I need a Chinese translation.

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 15

1. Arabic interjection for "Ouch!"
2. What language is this?
3. What is the title of this Chinese drama?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 16

1. Need some help from a wordsmith
2. crossing, testcrossing, backcrossing, mating, breeding, and possibly marrying?
3. Planed or planned
4. Bead

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 17

1. Use of ¡ and ¿ in New World languages
2. Strange grammar in Bunyan
3. Are these nouns?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 18

1. loneliness in social setting
2. What's like like?
3. "Slash my hooves"
4. "Remembered of"?

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 19

1. Verbs of electoral motion
2. Healths
3. Words for "not-the-capital"
4. Can't/Can
5. Brunei
6. Ghost/Phantom
7. "After going to the store, I came home"

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 20

1. pronominal verbs french list website
2. "All best"
3. Are there any English-English dictionaries available in DAISY audio book format?
4. Exact translation in English

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 21

1. What language is this?
2. Term for female chairman

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 22

1. The 'th' sound in Ghana
2. Vault term origins wanted
3. Chinese dialects
4. Seeing her reminds you of someone?
5. 么 and 麽

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 23

1. What does -teng mean in Ghanaian surnames?
2. Charities
3. Analyze/Analyse
4. Family Relations and In-Laws

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 24

1. Is a music band singular or plural?
2. /aw/
3. Grammaticality of the sentence
4. /aʊ/ is /au/ in some dialects?
5. move up the appointment
6. "Half as many again"
7. She/He/It comes

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 25

1. Stress in Russian surnames
2. Is there a Global War On "Than"?
3. Nisi Dominus Frustra
4. "Meet with an accident"?
5. cure vs. treatment vs. fixing vs. making _____ better vs. healing
6. What's special about "predecease" in the grand scheme of things?

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 26

1. "deliver" vs. "give" vs. "make" – a speech
2. French help: Concorde memorial
3. Tu and vous in French
4. Tasse in German and French
5. Which is older - "since biblical times" or "since ancient times"?
6. about s' of the let's
7. how do "will not" became to won't
8. Reduplication

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 27

1. When someone says they have a "3 hour commute", does that normally mean each way?
2. Number of words in Japanese versus English
3. Let it be

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 28

1. Position of a question mark in quotes
2. the meaning of 'ship'
3. Is the term JW offensive?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 29

1. Italics for business names that also happen to be periodicals?
2. If possible, please. Thank you.
3. are medal, mettle, metal, and meddle perfect homonymns in american english?

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 September 30

1. reading articles in several languages
2. the lions are drinking
3. A crow to pick
4. Surreal vs Unreal