Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/November 2016

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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 1

1. What does this German document say?
2. Colorful adjectival adverbs
3. Recognizing parts of Japanese names

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 2

1. Assistance in Translation of J-Pop albums (花*花)

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 3

1. Where do people use seemingly obscure sex terms?

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 4

1. What does رعربيعربي mean?

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 5

1. German Word(s)

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 6

1. Spelling
2. Would + maybe

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 7

1. ЭЗ3
2. Turkish video proposed as source

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 9

1. 襄王有意神女无心

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 10

1. What was the first country ?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 11

1. word originality and translation
2. Labelling people in photos

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 12

1. "Reconcileable" - two "e's" or three?
2. Japanese translation help

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 14

1. written language as part of the native competence
2. Controversies about the word "niggardly"
3. Verb and sound of reloading weapon
4. What does "plain" mean in this context?

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 16

1. Person who is ambidextrous
2. Cash wrap
3. UK in popular usage

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 17

1. San Juan Wednesday

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 18

1. Coining of 'vexillology'

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 19

1. Polyglots
2. Bizarre Bazaar

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 20

1. Two questions
2. Terminology

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 21

1. Definition of "larger than"
2. What I want to know is ...
3. Putin Quote
4. double bar
5. Choice of contractions

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 22

1. Solder / Sodder
2. Swedish loanwords
3. Louis Braille

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 23

1. What is this French velocipede invention in English?
2. Selective acronyms
3. Are British people really referring to the same food products as Americans?
4. "Published from 1706 through this year"

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 24

1. Oaths
2. *unattested term
3. Alternative words/phrases for 'amenities' and 'facilities'
4. Scientific research about foreign language teaching and learning
5. Tsadi or Tsadik in Yiddish
6. Pronunciation of "gestation", as in pregnancy

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 25

1. Where did the idiom "cold turkey" come from?
2. increase of "about who"
3. Neil Nunes on the shipping forecast
4. building back into cloud

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 26

1. Reasons for nonlinear narrative
2. French

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 27

1. Name for a production/marketing concept ?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 28

1. Is there a generic reciprocal of "client" in English?
2. Sources for online linguistics courses, with videos

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 November 30

1. Occurance [sic]
2. Chinese comets