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October 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 1

  1. Malaprops?
  2. Russian for "Jew" vs. "Hebrew"
  3. Looking for a solution
  4. Hyphenation of units
  5. Korean transliteration tool
  6. Tomorrow I'll Wake up and Scald Myself with Tea

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 2

  1. The tail at the end of a "u" and "t"
  2. Hopi question
  3. I'll not fix your computer.
  4. origin of the word unique

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 3

  1. Translation
  2. Format for Dates
  3. Norwegian Dialects
  4. meaning
  5. Subject / Verb Agreement: Singular or Plural
  6. run a tight ship
  7. "Reporting for duty"
  8. Endings-ish

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 4

  1. Lingua Franca
  2. Syllable division signs in IPA
  3. Stress (American English)
  4. what is the meaning of the following sentence in urdu?
  5. Aesop Translation

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 5

  1. Plural form of German nouns
  2. Sentiers battus
  3. common words
  4. Last name ethnicity

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 6

  1. Breathe in HEBREW
  2. Verb much?
  3. Are you a patient even if you're just in for routine medical exams?
  4. Sign language curiosity
  5. Song Translation

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 7

  1. Demonstrating the tones in Mandarin using music notes
  2. esposas
  3. A word for the realization of one's flaws
  4. what does llueve mean in english
  5. People, Persons

October 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 8

  1. The Mercy Seat technique
  2. Midge Ure's surname, and the possessive for words ending in "X"
  3. Categorized index for Wikipedia:Refence desk/Language
  4. Pull GS - explanation needed
  5. caes.. (latin)
  6. The Little Something That Could

October 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 9

  1. Distinguish Two Words
  2. Different cultural perpective book
  3. Why are the most common verbs often the most irregular?
  4. Internet slang acronym pronunciation
  5. Chinese Help!

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 10

  1. what is the difference between contagious and infectious
  2. Duckwalk
  3. Formal word request

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 11

  1. (Nada)

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 12

  1. Nahuatl translation
  2. Does this exist?
  3. 'have to' and 'need to' as modal verbs
  4. Your
  5. Looking for source of translation
  6. English Grammar - Parallel Comparision
  7. subspecies of the possessive

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 13

  1. Capping his tags
  2. Korean question

October 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 14

  1. proestro - English?
  2. Some kind of phonetic popularity reference?
  3. Etymology
  4. Greek COA motto - need characters and translation
  5. Name for the disk in the bottom of a urinal?
  6. Greek phrase

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 15

  1. Æ
  2. Suffice
  3. Mademoiselle
  4. Jar and jug
  5. Is it ever correct to say "these ones" or "those ones" in English?
  6. preposition question

October 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 16

  1. Expletives
  2. Need a word
  3. Pronounciation??
  4. 'Only in London' in Latin
  5. Women's underwear
  6. Bad English?
  7. Decommissioning
  8. allowance in spanish
  9. In around 2007
  10. That's the...!

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 17

  1. Overly-extended vowels in IPA
  2. correct or ot not.
  3. What is a person from San Marino?
  4. Fish strike

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 18

  1. Need Translation...
  2. Norwegian Dialects
  3. a latin sentence
  4. Drawing a Blank
  5. Synonyms
  6. Salir vs. irse
  7. Creation of a new language

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 19

  1. bareback in spanish
  2. poetry rules
  3. I like questions
  4. Need help interpreting St. Augustine
  5. Which country of spellings?

October 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 20

  1. Evidence of a syntactically important phoneme/grapheme?
  2. what form of language is this?
  3. a passage in latin
  4. Greek and German
  5. Apse meaning
  6. Why is 'fucker' used as an insult?
  7. Portuguese translation

October 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 21

  1. the eme meme
  2. Magellan discovers . . .
  3. B&M is a bit of a dog-a-lot shop
  4. 's- prefix for Dutch municipalities?
  5. spanish translation

October 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 22

  1. Quote Decryption
  2. Word usage question
  3. Confusion over in / at
  4. Suffixes in Proper Names
  5. Online Resources for learning Arabic
  6. Portuguese question

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 23

  1. Monetary grammer
  2. When "someone commiting an action" is used as a noun instead of a verb, should "someone" be possessive?
  3. Same sense?

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 24

  1. Languages
  2. word meaning
  3. free online pronoucation guide
  4. Sond Words
  5. Uh-oh, uh-huh, etc.
  6. Becoming an Interpreter for the UN.

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 25

  1. "have sex"
  2. latin sentence
  3. Sweet phonetics
  4. Proper English grammar
  5. Do you know the IPA?
  6. Origin of "pupil" to mean a "student"

October 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 26

  1. question about possible connections between Meluhha, Moluccas (and maybe other words like Malay, latin mal, Moloch, etc?)--taken from Meluhha talk page
  2. Do you use en, em, or whatever for range of years?

October 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 27

  1. The Scottish Play
  2. latin phrase
  3. latin question
  4. opposite to sin

October 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 28

  1. Strategies
  2. hebrew translation
  3. Animal words
  4. Fins-de-siecles

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 29

  1. All-New Improved RD5000!
  2. to Wareh, an apology
  3. To π or not to π, that is my question
  4. Welsh dictionary with pronunciations
  5. Backtranslate a machine-translated text?
  6. Apapapapache

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 30

  1. Schweinfurt and Swinford
  2. TURNPIKE ~ origin of the word
  3. Estonian Translator
  4. Dickens and English vowels

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 October 31

  1. Possible translation, English to French or Italian
  2. What is the adjective for something or someone from Hong Kong?
  3. Driving while intoxicated
  4. DUCKWALK
  5. Consensus in a redundant way
  6. The use of "Chef <surname>" in the United States