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February 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 1

  1. thesaurus-partner
  2. Most and least common phonemes
  3. Back Of The Neck Of A Pig
  4. Languages with the most phonemes

February 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 2

  1. What is Neutral Spanish?
  2. Phonetic evolution, or lack thereof, of classical personal names
  3. English/French
  4. Ryuichi Sakamoto translate lyrics

February 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 3

  1. closer to greedy

February 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 4

  1. caisson - refine meaning?
  2. SimSimi
  3. Jokes - the translation of, and for connected purposes
  4. "Lycidas" by John Milton (page on Wikipedia)
  5. "International Lease Finance Corporation" in Spanish
  6. I'm looking for languages, other than English, in which "to be" and "to see" rhyme.
  7. Can the word Am start a non-interrogative sentence?

February 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 5

  1. Chinese: "To be or not to be".
  2. Bouncing baby boys
  3. Rounded and unrounded vowels
  4. "before" & "beget"

February 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 6

  1. Origin
  2. Alvin as a Swedish given name

February 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 7

  1. Optim
  2. Grammatically correct

February 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 8

  1. Punctuation help
  2. Revolting, disgusting behaviour
  3. Mongolian (cyrillic) help
  4. etymology of "john" meaning toilet
  5. Use of the word 'that'

February 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 9

  1. Exact definition of "tenfold"
  2. Male and Female Words

February 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 10

  1. Symbol used to donate denote a paragraph that outlines the meaning of someone's name.
  2. Pronunciation of "r" as "w"
  3. Dessert
  4. "Former" and "then-"

February 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 11

  1. Cleverness
  2. [ð] → [v]
  3. Unknown language
  4. Pronouncing 同盟
  5. Looking for a site that adds Persian short vowels when transliterating
  6. German pronunciation question
  7. zahiere means what in spanish?

February 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 12

  1. Medieval Latin help - "cows" or "cattle"
  2. General American accent: Is the "t" in "beat me", "look at me", and likewise, pronounced as a glottal stop?
  3. Hochunk Native American
  4. Being democratic or being pro Democratic Party

February 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 13

  1. Contracting In French
  2. What's mean of "lack of teeth"?
  3. classical tamil
  4. Writing a thesis/article in Canadian University standard
  5. Estonians and Finnish

February 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 14

  1. size of language learning industry
  2. Name for part of a name

February 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 15

  1. Intepreting a sentence
  2. Eifersucht
  3. French Language
  4. Half-voiced affricate?

February 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 16

  1. Japanese text over Japanese text?
  2. Arabic name
  3. Central Asian languages

February 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 17

  1. Need help with Chinese or Japanese reference
  2. French capitalisation
  3. Nigdar ni bilo da nije nekak bilo - niti nigdar nebu da nekak nebu

February 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 18

  1. paradigmatic
  2. A particular style of roman numerals

February 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 19

  1. Phonological change and information theory
  2. IPA
  3. Szeemann, Harald
  4. French pronunciation
  5. labor sine deliciae vana

February 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 20

  1. Japanese name of Swiss agency
  2. Arabic name of Egyptian agency
  3. Chinese help
  4. I think he could use a "fishing area"
  5. is ⟨c⟩ ever /ts/ in English?
  6. French -ai/-ais/-ait

February 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 21

  1. French help
  2. "Hand" and "five"
  3. səgg-JEST
  4. Unleaded?
  5. What is the word to describe...

February 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 22

  1. Middle English
  2. 'Buried in' or 'buried at' a cemetery?
  3. How does one spell suffixed words derived from English verbs ending in "-fer" ?
  4. Possessive of 'Mice'
  5. When you feel that you have pronounced something wrong (but haven't)
  6. Zulu translation

February 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 23

  1. "Put that in your pipe and smoke it"
  2. [The] Sudetenland
  3. Use of words in ways that are clearly misleading
  4. Pronunciation: which varieties of English make a distinction between wander and wonder, and which varieties do not?
  5. consonant consistent
  6. "a society who"?
  7. Need a word
  8. Latin
  9. The previous name for 中国 in Japanese
  10. battery in battery cage

February 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 24

  1. "I Know You Want Me" Pitbull song question
  2. Natural language
  3. Chinese reading question
  4. Saxon element in Old English
  5. Italics? Diacritics?

February 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 25

  1. Definition of "milestone"
  2. Seu
  3. Hebrew language help requested
  4. Japanese names for Korean cities
  5. Is there a name for this grammatical error?
  6. When did English lose verb endings?
  7. Need Arabic script
  8. Identifying the language, and translating the lyrics, of the song Ramaya
  9. Ysgol
  10. A couple of grammar/ style questions
  11. Occy Occy Occy! Oi Oi Oi!

February 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 26

  1. Japanese character readings
  2. What language are the subtitles in this Flight of the Conchords video?
  3. Arabic help

February 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 27

  1. Why do languages that use the Roman alphabet spell words that can be different from their pronunciation?
  2. How to translate "Stadtoriginal"

February 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 28

  1. Are interns underpaid?
  2. Falkland Islands
  3. "Met with" or "was met with" a reaction?

February 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 February 29

  1. Japanese myth -- need kanji confirmation
  2. Spanish translations
  3. ALTERNATIVE WORDS TO
  4. Latin phrase
  5. Pre-ordering and pre-booking
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