Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2008
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June 1
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- reëxamining
- wait until next shoe drop
- Feldherrnhalle
- Learning a language online
- Phrases sharing initials
- Meaning of word 'skin horse'
June 2
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- Plural vs Singular
- Loser's folly
- Verkündung der Wehrfreiheit (Germany, 1935)
- Usage of word "aspect"
- "mille e tre" in Leporello's catalogue aria (Don Giovanni)
- Latvian question
- Catcher in the Rye
- Russian questions
June 3
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June 4
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June 5
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- Section8
- Translation of text on an image
- Words ending in Z
- Auxiliary verbs in English
- "Five years of fighting"
- Poem analysis...?
- Examples of languages with pre-noun and post-noun placement of adjectives
June 6
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- Plural of Destruction
- Latin Check
- Feminine endings in English
- The individual pasta unit
- what does "they" refer
- walk enclosure
- Donacor
- Russian questions
June 7
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- Vowel in "hören"
- Looking for a word.
- German word oder "Es handelt sich hier um.."
- Improving accent
- Language in a can?
- The origin of the term RIP when used to describe a computer generated printout
- Referring to words
- Full stop before/after quotation mark
- Chinese character 枚
- Is there a word for this: a noun for the place where a child has been raised vs. born?
- Italian swears
June 8
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- Request for translation in Italian
- Speakers of [FL-X]
- Can place be used as a location of text
- longest english word
- APA citations
- Is there a word...
- what does 'a couple of years' mean? 2year? 2~3year? or old year?
- Japanese? translation request
June 9
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- Book Info
- Please help me.
- Japanese
- German Prefix
- Talking horse
- Question about the American Heritage Dictionary
- insertion of unnecessary word (of)
- Chinese Written Standards
- The Meaning of "aleek betho"
- Possessive with proper nouns such as businesses
- Typing Korean
- The core rules of English
June 10
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- Insults in Calvino's Cavaliere Inesistente
- Proper term for a flipboard?
- Question!
- Mystery character
- "Adolf Hitler und sein Weg zu Großdeutschland"
June 11
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June 12
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- Same word with two origins? (i.e. college)
- Introductory subject "there" and subject-verb agreement in English
- The first word...
- Wrong
- Communications job title
- Native American naming
- diploma
- High vs. tall
- extant vs existent
June 13
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- Position of "not"
- "mock group"
- hebrew writing
- Translation of "Bhole Nath" - Sanskrit
- phonetic script of Kachhi (Kachchhi) language
- English = Latin?
- "Blog this..."
June 14
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- Is there a name for this kind of fallacy/rebuttal?
- pronunciation
- Anglo-Norman
- German grammar
- neutral insults
June 15
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- Hyphen-help-request
- Heliciculture
- Grammar question
- Explanation of a poem by T.S Eliot
- American wanting to do bus. in Afgh. Am confused if Farsi Rosetta Stone is purchased will that be = to Dari?
- cot cot cot codaaaaak
- "Something-sized" comparisons
June 16
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- "Equipotency"
- Swindlehurst
- Request for translation
- Ne Quid Nimis
- "age groupers"
- A book on human races
- Unknown text
- Name for icons
- Author of Quote or "Law"
- "Genetic" prefix???
- Corpora
June 17
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- "snortling"
- "solistic"
- Meaning of "steveador"
- can talk for England
- What's the word?
- Arabic spoken texts
- "May I End This Sentence With a Proposition?"
- Spanish translation requested
- German question
June 18
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June 19
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- Tropeiro
- khushwant singh's writing style.
- Encouraging phrases
- Irmiter
- German definite article plus name
- Honesty and truthfullness
- "To be, or not to be" ... what?
- Latin term for 'Inquiring Human'
- Copy text for assessing penmanship
- "ultrahydrophobicity"
- "periareolar"
June 20
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June 21
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- Desk officer
- name of drawing
- operative trauma Talk:Penile plethysmograph
- "bulk-producing"
- Value of a book
- unusual declension of the Latin noun aedes
- Chinese grammar
June 22
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June 23
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- Greek Title
- Russian text on a memorial monument
- Greek name style
- Indian
- The teen numbers in other languages
- ...his viva in medicine
- Hand that feeds...and...?
- Qirlo-Qerlo
- Bless your (his/her etc.) cotton socks
June 24
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- Etymology of 'extemporise'
- looking for the word for
- thematic priorities
- Asya
- Time was
- Is it possible to be ambitious without being pretentious?
- Quoi vs. que and other French grammar questions...
- 2008-06-24 C > WIKIPEDIA = A NEW BWORD IN THE BLOGOSPHERE??
- Eat your "vége"
- Language differences between British and American English
June 25
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- French translation
- What does "great primer" mean?
- spelling
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/EC#Initialism
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Generative_music#Noatikl
June 26
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- What is the plural of "how-to" when used as a noun?
- In versus On
- Have a life
- Mesleems
- English-language term for SS person-unit
- Verb tense
- "Whether"
June 27
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- a / an
- chanbara-go
- Hebrew
- Arabic for "network"?
- private
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Cilia#Cilium-related_disease
- Lace-making
- anatomies VS anatomy
- No-one vs. no one
June 28
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June 29
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- Thanks, good work on orange
- Language/word pronounciation
- what is the meaning of “make a bomb"?
- German question
- lorem ipsum
- Klaus Kinski interview
- "Enigma was among the first recording groups to use direct to HD recording studio and non-percussion musical instrument and vocal samples..."
June 30
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- Freud in Portuguese: "Arquitectura animica"
- Spainish help
- Wedding congratulations in French
- Pronunciation of 'P' in German
- Help with a sentence in Turkish
- Use of full-stops, closing brackets, commas etc in Setswana
- Indonesian
- Name of school in Reims, France, 1945
- Alphabetical order of persons' names and numbers in featured lists
- One Syllable?