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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 1

  1. Stetler or Hostetler
  2. Shakalaka
  3. Easiest languages to learn?
  4. 'slinger
  5. Cyclopedia -vs- Encyclopedia
  6. "duck-down jacket"
  7. What does "crown 8vo" mean?
  8. Silly Q

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 2

  1. A quick lesson in grammar
  2. Bringardner and Baumgartner?
  3. known and unknown
  4. German to English
  5. alf as cheap

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 3

  1. Derivation or Etymology
  2. "Full of action"
  3. Definitions: "agalma" and "plotin"
  4. Place names etymologies in England
  5. What do these Irish words mean?
  6. Second

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 4

  1. man listening to disc
  2. I Carré about the spelling
  3. Latin Harry Potter translation
  4. military pronunciation of cache

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 5

  1. anja Document.
  2. Language choice
  3. Translation from English
  4. WTF in Chinese

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 6

  1. Grammar, what sharp teeth you have
  2. Further or farther a field or afield
  3. Products becoming common names.
  4. What was this edit meant to say?
  5. Word that means......

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 7

  1. Weird incident
  2. Learning Hanzi/Kanji
  3. suffixies
  4. Correct spelling or word use
  5. The Date
  6. from Pride and Prejudice

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 8

  1. negative words
  2. "Try and"
  3. Translation from German
  4. Derivation
  5. IPA n

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 9

  1. "Maria's motorcycle helmet"
  2. "-i" in feminine names
  3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  4. Ling: Female given name only?
  5. German-to-English translation request
  6. erman genders and plurals
  7. Spanish double negation
  8. Haiku Rules

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 10

  1. Unicode Question
  2. do they speak english?
  3. formal and informal english
  4. Japanese translation needed, thank you!

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 11

  1. Euphemisms for "diarrhea sickness"
  2. hello (foreign)
  3. Learning a foreign language.

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 12

  1. "Motion lines"
  2. Writing a speech - valedictorian
  3. "heathen" vs. "pagan"
  4. languAge and dreams?
  5. /æ/ in katakana

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 13

  1. anji
  2. Whose
  3. Phonetics and phonology of English and ...
  4. proper use of the word riparius?!
  5. Arabic translation
  6. opyedit

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 14

  1. Gramatically Correct
  2. Japanese title usage
  3. Language Speciation
  4. Is this correct English?
  5. Frau Doktor
  6. "Only God Can Judge Me" in French
  7. Capitalization
  8. Stress patterns in Slavic languages

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 15

  1. The difference between "should" and "ought to"
  2. puke
  3. linguistics
  4. Question about capitalization

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 16

  1. GOOD NOON
  2. Strange word orders
  3. Looking for a quote
  4. Edgar Allan Poe
  5. Latin Translation, Please

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 17

  1. erb tense
  2. eaning of "Francois c'est pas flashe non deux"
  3. Martial arts terminology
  4. English dialects used in drama

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 18

  1. se of "And" in the beginning of a sentence
  2. deosyncratic orthography at St. Nicholas Magazine
  3. The Cockroach by Kevin Halligan
  4. Cadence for marching prisoners, in German, ca. WWII
  5. Latin translation needed - please.
  6. unctuation
  7. Unnamed Short Story

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 19

  1. Most readable writing system
  2. How to read "router"?
  3. Farging
  4. World War II related sentence
  5. Word ending in ....advert
  6. Hindi(?) translation:

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 20

  1. Abdul Rehman Al-Sudais
  2. Definition
  3. orry if this is a stupid/oft asked question
  4. Adverb with quantifier?
  5. What to link in a Reference

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 21

  1. "Hesher" definitions gone--what happened to them?
  2. Regular allophonic pair in English
  3. Lick ...
  4. That's too bad/What a shame
  5. Identifing an accent
  6. Names of Latin letters in Greek language
  7. What does "walk-down" mean?
  8. What's a motto with you?

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 22

  1. Correct third-person past tense of scream
  2. what is the meaning of "how about a hand for Harry"
  3. anged versus Hung
  4. ay/December Marriage
  5. help with a printing term?
  6. Technical Term for Italicized Thougts in Literature
  7. Etymology

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 23

  1. "Rapier" in Hindi
  2. Are there any words in Nepali that sound like...
  3. copyedit or copy-edit or copy edit?
  4. Guantánamo Bay
  5. Machiavelli & Exclamation marks

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 24

  1. Deleted entry
  2. Word for glove maker?
  3. Mingler
  4. Using Wikipedia
  5. resent Perfect Tense used for distant past events

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 25

  1. If 'photo' means light in some language (greek?), what is that language's word for darkness?
  2. I've got a preposition for you...
  3. Spanish translation
  4. riple s in geographical names
  5. Toward vs towards
  6. a/an FAQ
  7. French etymological dictionary
  8. Tones in Mandarin Songs

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 26

  1. Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
  2. Which
  3. Trait
  4. Anglo-Saxon equivalent of loanwords

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 27

  1. Tacitus quote spelling
  2. Meaning of these lyrics?
  3. Norwegian Continuum
  4. what is the english equivalent of the name Diego?
  5. What's the symbol "L" mean?
  6. Is this correct?
  7. Hitler was a vegetarian
  8. Life is unfair.

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 28

  1. Kalantaryan

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 29

  1. Anyone know some good Welshisms?
  2. Quote
  3. Chinese? Rock inscription
  4. Something detoriating
  5. grammar
  6. 7-0 or seven-o: a Secret Service code?

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 June 30

  1. Learning Received Pronunciation
  2. Birds of the Anatomy
  3. Provincial tenses
  4. Ancient Greek question
  5. Cigarette slang