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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 1

1. Second languages by number of speakers
2. Chinese characters in File:Tsingdao Brewery.jpg
3. Teuruarii IV: French translation
4. dornthly dog pest
5. Toilet signs

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 2

1. Alhambra...a kind of Gazebo?
2. "Rolling hills" in French

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 3

1. Questions about Id al-Adha
2. Writing Russian with an abjad
3. Questions about Id al-Adha
4. Is this another AE/BE difference?
5. Where did our capitalisation rules for headings come from?
6. Data

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 4

1. Please state directly if this is a good prose or a bad prose.
2. Is this prose readable?
3. Korean help

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 5

1. G.A. and a / o differences
2. Capitalization in Spanish
3. Russian romanization

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 6

1. Something we'll only be able to guess
2. Translation
3. Phonology: unrounded back vowels
4. French grammarian's last words
5. Chinese translation

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 7

1. Ma Dibos
2. Which chinese language kept the most Middle Chinese vocabularies?
3. Chinese help/File:說好普通話.png
4. Question on Chinese.
5. Are 'revelation' and 'revealment' synonyms?
6. Chinese questions
7. Who composed an Ode to Spot?
8. Alcool Prohibition : "spoof-laws" ?

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 8

1. Pensions, nominations, mutations, congés, etc
2. Spanish
3. Ancient Greek grammar
4. a can of Spauldings
5. Sign on, Sign in, log on, log in, signon, etc.
6. French Court Translation
7. Arabic speaker needed
8. Translation help

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 9

1. -er/-re
2. Languages bar
3. language using
4. etc., usage of
5. Ancient Greek Participles perfect table
6. Chinese name of novel
7. Quick translation from French

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 10

1. another who/whom
2. Chinese help
3. Where is American English orthography used?
4. Follow-up to "another who/whom" above: hyphen in well-known
5. File:Soy sauce in supermarket.JPG

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 11

1. Mandarin and Cantonese
2. Why felis and not feles

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 12

1. Another quick translation from French
2. Whinging and whining

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 13

1. buildings
2. Grammar
3. Biblical citation

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 14

1. Capital letters in English
2. Subjunctive in Spanish
3. Parkways+driveways

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 15

1. What does it mean?
2. Allochthous, alternative and alternate, anonymously
3. Is this writer here a dumb or a flowery writer?
4. IPA transcription - Norwegian
5. notional/notational
6. Greek newspaper research
7. Odd string of modifiers
8. Samuel Kipi
9. Peeps, Weemz, Sandz etc

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 16

1. No one/Noone/No-one
2. Accusative duplex Ancient Greek

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 17

1. in what language does dx stand for /ʒ/ (zh)
2. Etymology of Karkadeh or Hibiscus sabdariffa
3. Hawaiian
4. Pronouncing Heyde
5. Help translating a page
6. Pronouncing "death" as [dæθ] by Americans.
7. Linguistic features of an encyclopaedia entry

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 18

1. Hindi text help

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 19

1. Incident vs accident
2. Non PIE forms of sheep counting
3. Is there any significance to a parrot being named 'Mithu'?
4. Sanskrit
5. Arabic translation needed
6. English gramatical use of the phrase "easier said than done"
7. Dangling participle... or not?
8. Ov
9. Maan News translation
10. Whatever happened to the distinctions between there/their/they're and than/then?

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 20

1. How many official national languages are there in the world?
2. garden path sentence
3. Spelling of Mount Kailas or Kailash
4. Uses of don't and doesn't
5. Chinese help
6. Idu do kraju, de kurtsi sraju
7. Arabic help

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 21

1. What comes before previous? After next?
2. Guide to pronouncing (saying) mathematics in German
3. Need a word meaning "fate"
4. Stative VS dynamic verb: sustain

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 22

1. "Boffins" and The Register
2. Verb endings originally were pronouns?
3. tampopo
4. Question about translations of War and Peace
5. "Do ritsi na bal!" translation?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 23

1. Japanese transcription of German
2. Pronunciaton of Speaight
3. What Arabic to learn?
4. Learn a language in x days
5. Obscure Scottish dialect in Brave (2012)
6. On/at website

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 25

1. Is French spelling conservative?
2. Kanji

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 26

1. Waiting on someone
2. Stiff cards

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 27

1. Rhyming words ending in "one"
2. Book
3. Arouche in Spain?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 28

1. Name for cooking technique
2. Checks drawn to cash
3. Is "steampunk" a proper noun?
4. Regarding the editing of a quotation in a newspaper (or elsewhere)

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 29

1. Chinese help: I Not Stupid Too
2. Which tense?
3. Does this response make sense in terms of grammar?
4. What does this banner say?
5. need adjective

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 November 30

1. definition of standing agreement
2. American English exercise
3. Is it possible that a journal essay is made without footnotes?
4. English
5. Mongolian Wikipedia
6. Looking for correct idiom and its origin