Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2008
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 16
- Sentence construction
- Netherlands in espanol
- Quu
- Bahrain
- Switch engines off or switch off engines
- “The banks just are not lending.” vs. “The banks are just not lending.”
- "I think it is more important than ever that he win." vs. "I think it is more important than ever that he wins."
- Is it al-Maliki or Maliki
- Sentence structure
- Honouring fatalities?
- Number of languages needed to speak to 50% of world
- 'Law words'
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 19
- what do you call this thing used in book shelves?
- How did the phrase "Old wives' tale" come about?
- Is there any real difference between these two sentences
- sample of formal vs. informal english
- -ev ending in Russian surnames
- Help with pronunciaion
- in italian they use settemlia bace per te Why use 7000?
- Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana use
- "...both tumour suppressor and oncogenic pathways"
- Lanuages with masc./fem. 2nd person
- "Mada mada dane!"
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 22
- word derivation/history
- Spanish translation
- Parental warning
- Writing on Indian Rocket Chandrayaan-1 (Hindi)
- Help with a Latin language British title
- What is the Chinese term "金童玉女" in English?
- Overlapping subsets
- how does english sound to others?
- Past tense uses of the verb "to text"
- Celtic/Irish/Welsh Symbolism Sign Language
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 28
- Shorthand and ignorance
- Planet / Star in Cantonese
- Russian translation
- latin-english translation
- Although, therefore, ....
- Salutations
- Frequency of Initial Letters of the Alphabet worldwide or on wikipedia
- Morphology of figures of speech
- Questions about Late Egyptian
- Origin of the word Skerrick
- That'll teach you to ...
- Chinese question