Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2014
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 5
- The cucumber is bound to its vine.
- a long face like a cucumber
- as sb. well puts it
- Can a sentence beginning with "more than once" be inverted?
- "It" or "they" to refer to "a pair of trousers"?
- dare not think those thoughts any further
- money from selling apples
- Does beware stem from be aware?
- Writing accented letters
- yokutch language
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 6
- More than once did I meet him in New York.
- A term for clothes worn by patients in hospital
- His mind kept wandering, sometimes to whether... and sometimes to whether...
- grudge his apples
- mottled with peeling paint or mottled by the peelings of paint?
- The sun shines on me heavily.
- bank up the grave mound with earth
- a neighbor patient?
- a word in English for the classmate who shares a desk with me
- eat congee or drink congee?
- Use of enlist language word 'clicks' in American action movies
- Foreign monarchs' names translated
- VPs
- Translation request - Chinese
- Russian Text
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 7
- wall or walls of the room when I mean the four sides?
- The bed is propped up by bricks.
- lift one foot onto the other knee
- difference between rather than and instead of
- He is sleeping with the wings of his nose quivering.
- recurrent crow(or crows) of roosters
- There is one more apple in his basket than in mine.
- a cluster of houses
- fish for a sweet potato in the crack of the ridge
- Does this make sense? and should I add some stuff more?
- Leila Fadel
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 8
- Any difference between "Don't you know it?" & "Do you not know it?"?
- Why "Somebody said" and the quotation in separate lines?
- Can "cannot but do sth." & "cannot help doing sth." be used interchangeably?
- in the hot sun or under the hot sun
- Is "go into the night on her way back home" good English?
- She clapped her hands: "That's great!"
- The apples sold away turned into money.
- List of items and punctuation
- on the river beach
- What a taste
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 20
- one more question about "lean"
- Deutsche Physik
- The pegion is back.
- Inconsistencies in Sochi Cyrillizations
- How old is the Arabic language?
- "knight-rider"?
- What is the origin of the surname Soulodre and Lecuc?
- Origins of the surnames "Houdek" and "Vostrejs" and "Roshak" and "Gallenstein" and "Bethel"
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- Multi-quote syntax
- Is ‘subtract’ strictly mathematical?
- deposit
- Hebrew translation help
- tumors on his lung lobes
- on the appointed day
- Her nose tingling, she was on the verge of tears.
- well-fed on the locals' chickens
- in the early morning & early in the morning
- a verb for "to smile with one's lips closed without showing his/her teeth"
- 17th-century portrait: Latin inscription
- What is the adjective of someone who speaks a lot and repeatedly about something ('harp on')
- quotations
- The belief that one country is superior to another