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February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 2

  1. Vets In Practice
  2. Latin & Spanish
  3. Arabic numbers

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 3

  1. Plurals of English nouns ending in "i" [?]
  2. Whose father?
  3. Classification of sentence
  4. French words entering English
  5. "Subject - Verb - Object" - and exceptions
  6. Romanization of Cyrillic
  7. Skirting the issue, unwillingness to ask for something directly.

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 4

  1. span
  2. Is there a term for words that exist almost solely in certain phrases?
  3. Ambiguous abbreviations
  4. Spanish nasals and [ŋ]
  5. Does the city of Urbino have an adjective in English?

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 5

  1. Hebrew help

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 6

  1. Could you please have a look at this text in German?
  2. "Standard" languages in fantasy settings
  3. French question: Sans versus Cent

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 7

  1. I just called to say...
  2. Hhelp
  3. General Flowerkick?
  4. Jo-ed

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 8

  1. Treaty of Portsmouth places
  2. Agreement with plural nouns treated as singular?
  3. Are there any better words for "OCR'ing" and "combining OCR-result and immage"?
  4. undocumented hand gesture?
  5. Plural of Mercedes-Benz?
  6. Shi Jingtang's father

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 9

  1. Chinese again - need computer enterable characters
  2. In what language is this song?

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 10

  1. Coat of arms of Paray-Vieille-Poste
  2. no less than vs not less than
  3. Latin help again please
  4. English language: - there's a word for this, but I can't recall it
  5. Of all the sentences in all the encyclopedias in all the world, the period walks out of mine.
  6. arabic we the people

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 11

  1. English V2?
  2. Is there a verb form of "appellation" meaning "to name"?
  3. Please help with this sentence structure OR How can we make this sound better?

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 12

  1. Wimmel
  2. Who's that girl?
  3. Capital or not a capital
  4. Arabic writing translation wanted, please

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 13

  1. Translation of a long Latin sepulchral inscription
  2. what is the high-falutin' version (meaning) of the word "precious"?
  3. Arabic: Habibi / habibti
  4. Latin sexual verb
  5. Translation of 巨蜂葡萄

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 14

  1. What language is this?
  2. Aspect vs Tense
  3. summer chocolate
  4. Intermediate versus open o
  5. Kecskemét

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 15

  1. Derivative nouns & Uncountable nouns.
  2. Dutch and Farsi help
  3. Door number three?
  4. Ambiguity in Vietnamese

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 16

  1. Yakovlevich
  2. "too big of a" etc.

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 17

  1. Just out of interest...
  2. French "billion"
  3. Please remember not to forget
  4. Bahasa Indonesia help
  5. Is there anything wrong with this sentence?
  6. Grammar tool to supplement spell checker?
  7. "Debaser" (Pixies song) title sound file request for Wikipédia
  8. First language in the history of human civilization
  9. Promentorium tremendum = ?

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 18

  1. Is the following sentence ambiguous?
  2. Translation of 17th-century German book title
  3. Sumerian

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 19

  1. Stop series - aspirated/breathy/modal?
  2. French
  3. Languages in The Eagle
  4. piano ripple
  5. Help writing Urdu script
  6. Word 'crisis' in Chinese
  7. In what language does one say: to complain "from" somebody, instead of: to complain "about" somebody ?

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 20

  1. What is considered the gold standard German/English translation dictionary?

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 21

  1. Groups of words built the same way but from different source languages
  2. Definition
  3. Translation of a German book title
  4. The word "Data" and plurals
  5. Imply vs infer?
  6. 'Immersion' in a submarine simulation
  7. "of" vs. "'s"
  8. "Learnable" ... ?!

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 22

  1. Taught vs. learned
  2. Translation from French
  3. English translation from columns in Caphernaum
  4. Arabic help
  5. Term for skepticism towards oneself
  6. Pronouncing Boston if you are from Boston, daughter in England
  7. Can you learn a language with multimedia packages...
  8. Innan vs. före

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 23

  1. Seasonal colouration
  2. Skočná and sousedská
  3. Desert's son in Arabic
  4. Punctuation after italics
  5. Translation of Japanese term into English

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 24

  1. Québécois or Gaspésie expression
  2. Rhotacism among native speakers of Spanish
  3. English for Chinese word 干爹
  4. Word for 24-hour period
  5. Grammar - "without me having to"

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 25

  1. w.r.t. or i.r.o.
  2. What letter of the alphabet is this?
  3. French profanity

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 26

  1. "Sandboxing" in general
  2. Hindi translation
  3. on vs l'on
  4. Word for expert on medals

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 27

  1. Cyrillic text help
  2. "A discussion that resulted in his being sanctioned."
  3. Hanzi and pinyin for Ms Wenwen Han please!
  4. Mnemonic for semantics of "to trade A for B"
  5. Pawn to Rook Seven?
  6. Ol Chiki and Avesta fonts
  7. A gang of fifty strong?
  8. Polish translation needed
  9. Latin translation
  10. Wrinkly grandmother...

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 February 28

  1. anyone know Russian?
  2. Muslim girl names
  3. can past tense and present tense come togethor in a common written piece.
  4. Americanisms... again
  5. Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I won?
  6. Verb objects