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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 1

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 1#|]]
2. Buffalo Stance
3. Swiss German Expression?
4. consultation on stress on word Chinese

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 2

1. word-to-morpheme ratio
2. Help contacting a person whose web site is in Chinese
3. "bildungsromane"
4. Gemini by Michel Tournier
5. ISO 639
6. French Numbers

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 3

1. T-V distinction in Kannada

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 4

1. Word
2. What words do you not capitalize in a header?
3. Use of "None"
4. Speaking English
5. summary, precis..?
6. Aclaratory note
7. terminology
8. french
9. Translation (fr --> en) check

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 5

1. Cast a Dispersion?
2. Translation

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 6

1. Need Help With Translation
2. When should the hyphen be used, and when should it not be used?
3. Help with foreign language links
4. Spanish phrase
5. words in other languages
6. Growth of English acceptability of (Middle) English
7. invitation question...
8. Spanish "ya"

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 7

1. A fast system to deplagirize text?
2. Do native speakers of English understand following type of sentences easily?
3. The Communist Party of China and the human soul
4. Prepositions Preceding Surnames: A Collective Term and Their Alphabetisation
5. It was a dark and stormy night
6. Proper adjectives
7. What does the English idiom game, set, and match mean?
8. Double Dactyls
9. Mean of "Macavity"
10. I need to know what "apostel" is regarding certification of a birth certificate.
11. Schedule conflicts!

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 8

1. A Song that no one knows...
2. obo
3. German Help
4. After research no clear answer: "What's the difference between Professor, Teacher, instructor?"
5. Further/farther
6. Spanish abuuu ;_;

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 9

1. German manners
2. English translation from Japanese
3. oi kei
4. Neologism?
5. How to read Chloe?
6. Portuguese
7. grammar help
8. A document in Slovenian or maybe Croatian
9. Alphabets
10. Confusion about in- and un-
11. Translation of "trem-" in genus name Tremarctos

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 10

1. Sense of Vertigo
2. French corpus: verb frequency
3. Britney Spears' or Britney Spears's
4. Anybody know any Korean?
5. Spanish (?) translation
6. Please help with semantics
7. More help with semantics
8. straight As or straight A's?
9. European English?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 11

1. Some questions on learning Italian
2. Grammar
3. Capito
4. The English Word "That"
5. Names of Famous People

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 12

1. Middle Chinese
2. Tibetan spelling of "karma"
3. english language
4. How to pronounce (for use in spoken wiki project) death cap mushroom article

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 13

1. Word meaning "impoverished aristocrat"
2. gender names
3. Lost letters
4. What Word Describes This Idea?
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Time Line

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 14

1. PTSA
2. segue not in oed
3. Questions in simple past tense
4. Y

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 15

1. a linguistic question
2. Harry Potter
3. Content/Contented
4. RSVP as a verb
5. No bones
6. Translation
7. Glottal stop
8. definition and use of historical versus historic
9. How do you pronounce "zusammen" and "entgegen"?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 16

1. New page in Arabic
2. Best Word Selection
3. Italics
4. Mi'kmaq and Acadian French toponymy
5. Grammar 2
6. If you wish / If you wish so
7. Long German word for "jeep"
8. Reduplicative slang

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 17

1. Korean translation
2. What is the Correct Pronoun to Use Here?
3. Need Chinese reference or advice
4. Word which rhymes with "fight" and "write"
5. Scaglia orazio aci S. Antonio

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 18

1. stabilization of automatic translation
2. U.S. counties - what is the difference between established and organized
3. Verreisen vs. reisen
4. Grammar
5. Just now
6. Quotation marks
7. German exams

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 19

1. When referring to groups...
2. Best Word Choice?
3. Idiom: Blood on Blood
4. The e-word
5. Latin translation of "Intrum Justitia"
6. whistle down the wind: etymology

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 20

1. Punctuation
2. What is the IPA for Joe Sakic ?
3. how's your father
4. Choose Between Two Words
5. Use of into/in to
6. i need your answers...
7. Japanese Wikipedia

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 21

1. Elementary language Homework
2. IPA TTS
3. Audio pronunciation
4. to sport
5. Let yourself be tempted by ...
6. Grammar and nationalities
7. Why Italian pronounces "pizza" as "pete-zha" not "pee-sha"?
8. French translation

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 22

1. Johnny condom
2. Cottage cheese
3. The origin of the word embryo

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 23

1. Latin Word for Quote
2. Samples of Middle Norwegian
3. Svangaskarð pronunciation
4. I am "humbled"
5. A question from es.wikipedia regarding the femeninity of boats

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 24

1. origin of English idiomatic phrase
2. Spick-and-span (& spick and span; & spick)
3. "Ziehen"
4. I have an idea you're pulling our leg. - Xn4
5. Effect of words in brackets on sentence
6. Vampire
7. Khmer language
8. Diacritics in Slovenian names
9. Loss of Gender in English Between Old and Modern English
10. Help with name pronunciation, Peter Geach

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 25

1. Help with Latin quotation
2. Idioms & Proverbs
3. Definition of the word "native"
4. Percentage of English words derived from Latin or Romance languages

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 26

1. Wizard of Oz lyrics
2. translation into Latin
3. "How do you like my paragraph?"
4. Sew what's new?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 27

1. Are there translation sites where Japanese words are in English letter words instead of symbols?
2. sentence making
3. What is the Proper Term for This?
4. language arts
5. Dutch to English translation for improvement of Wikipedia article
6. what is the phrase "hairs on a bobbin"
7. Miquelon; Basque, Spanish, both or neither?
8. What does this mean?
9. The Scots leid

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 28

1. Shortest sentence
2. how do you pronouce charis?
3. accent advice please
4. Englishman's home
5. IPA for Australian name Brabham
6. Classical Greek font
7. Russian

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 29

1. latin poem
2. Learning to read
3. Kiss Me
4. Japanese
5. Symbol for the word Lively in Aramic,Arabic, or Korean

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 September 30

1. (In)transitive verbs
2. aspects of Mary
3. Grammar
4. Meaning of a phrase
5. Latinized Dutch names
6. Grammar