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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 1

1. Eastern European naming conventions
2. Word request

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 2

1. Asia languages
2. Existing features under lost estates
3. Port/dock terminology,
4. Words on a Chinese date stamp

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 3

1. Breakfast Cereals Business
2. reworking a sentence

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 4

1. Etymology of "order" -- illogical?
2. Two Chinese questions
3. Medical terminology
4. Japanese help: Are the authors of this report independent of the Liceo Mexicano Japonese?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 5

1. anecdotally
2. Language with only three verbs

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 6

1. History of netiquette conventions
2. Hindi (?) -> English translation
3. Correct wording
4. Trying to find TLS article

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 7

1. "Pled" vs "Pleaded"?
2. Right dislocation in English
3. Parse Tree for lists
4. "Traveling overseas"
5. English Quote -> Arabic Translation

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 8

1. Handwritten list of Anglican bishops of England?
2. How did people view nature before the Enlightenment?

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 9

1. Any French ornithologists in the house?
2. Surname "Iwi"
3. Nation foundation
4. Chinese character request

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 11

1. Why present continuous tense
2. Japanese help: translating names of Japanese sources listed in Wikipedia discusión:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés
3. Unusual pronunciation pattern

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 12

1. Possible slang meaning of Czech word
2. "AAAAAA!" but not "BBBBBB!"
3. Arabic help: What is the Arabic in the poster?
4. Chinese Taipei

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 13

1. Japanese exonyms
2. Athens and Attica

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 14

1. "Brunette"
2. Using "they" even if the gender is known
3. "Drank out of the wrong bottle" ?
4. "Knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue"

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 15

1. wondtacular

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 16

1. Correct preposition: account ... a website
2. Proper grammar question
3. Similar root words, similar meanings...
4. Pakistan Post motto
5. Preclude
6. Transliterating names

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 17

1. Ces gens dans le Nord
2. What is this Japanese language source about? Do the authors have a connection to the subject?I
3. Taking care of living things

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 18

1. make the list
2. Triplets of triplets
3. Correct word
4. "And" at the beginning of a paragraph

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 19

1. Not religious. Not agnostic. Not atheist. Just doesn't care.
2. Czech sentence
3. Artificial 'boo' in horrors
4. Euthanize in Spanish
5. is there a word to describe three vessels merging into one vessel (i.e. as occurs in veins)

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 20

1. what we're using for a tablecloth
2. Hypernyms and hyponyms

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 21

1. Difference between "His main success lies in... " and "His success mainly lies in"
2. rayoysfirkom? (Soviet acronym in Yiddish)

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 22

1. Grammticality judgement

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 23

1. the meaning of "drive"
2. "Sherpa" as a surname

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 24

1. "Animal verbs" in foreign languages
2. Ger. Rössl
3. Godeschalk / Godescalc

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 25

1. Hyphen in Moby-Dick
2. American and British English
3. Floating a horse's teeth
4. Self-pronunciation

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 26

1. Persian help: What is the Persian in this image?
2. Translating and pronouncing a Russian sentence

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 27

1. ”une association de défense des victimes de dérives sectaires”
2. Refracty bits
3. Articles in three-gendered versions of Swedish
4. Upper case F

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 28

1. Request for translating a list of Japanese sources into English
2. the number and the size of cities

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 29

1. year-era
2. the meaning of "zap the fire out of a person"
3. Request: Transcribe Japanese sentences at the top of a page in a PDF file
4. Talking a lot but is fake sounding
5. Question about Polyglossia article and Liceo Mexicano Japones

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 30

1. the meaning of "tools"
2. Nationality Issue for Spanish Catalan biographical articles
3. French help: What does this news broadcast say about "Stellar Airways" (Congolese airline)
4. ENGLISH: Soaring Wings?
5. Siderian vs sidereal