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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 1

1. A "displaced state"
2. Chinese help

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 2

1. Cheers??

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 3

1. translation from Moroccan Arabic
2. Transcription

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 4

1. The <a person's name>s of the world
2. Pronunciation of a Danish name
3. Arabic to English translation of the word "Aghrāḍ"
4. How long would it take for someone to learn the french language with no high school degree?
5. Word for a person who does not understand speech?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 5

1. Dr King writings
2. Pinyin
3. More Chinese questions
4. Timeout
5. Einarssson?

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 6

1. Help with Possible Arabic, Persian, or Dari speaking user
2. No starch
3. Nooki experiment viral video

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 7

1. Trying to write correct english
2. Old art document history
3. 30000 traps
4. Additional Chinese requests: Warehouse building

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 8

1. does my spelling show my aging?
2. "branched out into"
3. A little technical assistance for an author ?
4. Need vowels for Hebrew word

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 9

1. Famous English Quotations in Other Languages
2. To what base uses...
3. Irish Gaelic userbox
4. Writing systems
5. Peggy Lee's trilled German ells
6. Understanding Shakespears wording

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 10

1. Hindi v/w
2. Russian translation
3. language problem

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 11

1. Gulliver's Travels in Hindi
2. "Peruse"

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 12

1. Hardball
2. "People of the Book" in Pakistan
3. Making verbs out of nouns
4. Sounds of Language series by Bill Martin

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 13

1. Half past o'clock

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 14

1. card reader the electronic device vs. card reader, a person

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 16

1. What does this girl's Chinese tattoo mean?
2. "V P Lyubit Vas"? ("Vlad Putin Loves You"?)
3. What do you call it when you get a BIG fish?
4. Paper News

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 17

1. Pato

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 18

1. Chinese bronze or seal script question
2. "table-doty breakfast"
3. Handwritten lowercase ligatures

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 19

1. English numerals pronunciation
2. Locke: "suspected of jargon in others"?
3. Luxembourgish translation needed
4. Tommy Wiseau - where's he from?

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 20

1. Est-ce que c'est vraiment dur d'être aimé par les cons? (The C-Word)
2. Croatian language
3. Center of Attraction
4. Arabic help
5. is straits plural or singular
6. "The moon is out to trust"

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 21

1. Spanish "diskos" bread
2. Everything and nothing
3. Mali online newspaper (in French) - is it an RS?
4. Troshing the Clossics in the Clossroom
5. Help with Korean Lyrics

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 22

1. Quick translation from Norwegian
2. Problem with Wikipedia fonts
3. Arabic help with two images

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 23

1. What does the name Aelita mean?
2. Arabic and French help
3. Translation from Arabic
4. Double contractions
5. How good is the "UK English versus American English" analogy for Austrian German versus German German?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 24

1. Adaptation of the Ancient place names into Turkish
2. Sanskrit question
3. been/bin homophony and Alan Partridge
4. Simplified Chinese help
5. to smell = ?
6. Rhyme with orange
7. Obsolete words
8. Chinese name for Betty Bossi?
9. Rewriting Elizabeth II's early life

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 25

1. Paragraph structure, and topic sentences, used on Wikipedia.
2. Turkish help: File:HomelessParis 7032101.jpg
3. "Thank you for verbing" in German
4. Pronunciation of the French surname "Serville"
5. Untranslated Russian term of early Sovet era
6. "xh" in Liégeois placenames
7. countable or non countable

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 26

1. Minor or major?
2. "-do-" = ditto?
3. Nachgeordneter Zweig
4. Is the Guardian Scandinavian?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 27

1. A picturesque equivalent of "job displacing", please ? .
2. Pronunciation of 'Haigh'
3. Spelling siz(e)ably

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 28

1. "Hear undernead dis laitl stean": Early Middle English and Robin Hood
2. teaching terry
3. "too meta"

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 29

1. Of gaols, jails and prisons
2. Beware of Greeks bearing eggs at sunrise?
3. Cocoa/cacao
4. Help to improve the phrase
5. It is hardly for me to pronounce upon qualities I may or may not possess.
6. A technical term for finding words inside other words?

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 September 30

1. How is this translation in Spanish?
2. are my sentences correct?
3. Where is this quote from