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May 1 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 1

1. Egal
2. Chinese question
3. English to Norwegian please
4. "to my wedded wife/husband"

May 2 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 2

1. Arabic for Al-Thager Model School
2. USAGE OF THE WORD CONSTITUENT
3. Ennui
4. Looking for a word

May 3 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 3

1. King consort
2. Norwegian languages
3. looking forward to "join" vs "joining"
4. Gascon Occitan question
5. Verboten

May 4 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 4

1. How best to learn Mandarin
2. Hebrew

May 5 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 5

1. etimology of expression
2. A belated thank-you to you all
3. Grammatical complexity in language

May 6 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 6

1. Numbers
2. Saddam Hussein, Goldilocks and Mother
3. What is the opposite of Ambivalence ?
4. Atlantic or atlantic
5. German:Hauptveranst
6. Castilian Spanish

May 7 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 7

1. Request for comment: ITS
2. Dutch translation please

May 8 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 8

1. Classical Chinese
2. "He has a duck" in Russian
3. Japanese Onomatopaeic Expressions
4. Dogs Bollocks
5. bit o' Spanish
6. Bloody 'ell
7. Identifying mystery language

May 9 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 9

1. English/German wordplay
2. IPA Transcription to language

May 10 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 10

1. Could some translate this Sentence for me?
2. In what case should I put the word accompanying "У"?
3. Special use of "you"
4. wut did abraham lincoln sound like when he talked
5. Every Third Thought

May 11 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 11

1. Español
2. Is the [http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Scots Language Wikipedia] tounge in cheek?
3. English Grammer
4. Morass rose as high as it die
5. plait/plate?
6. Help trying to find Korean version of accident report
7. Slavic words consisting only of consonants
8. Can phobia mean hatred?

May 12 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 12

1. Toe heal?
2. Republics and democracies in Modern Greek
3. Question about /ɛ/
4. "Tuttavia"?
5. French adjectives

May 13 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 13

1. Intrusive word
2. Reading Method
3. Word "few"
4. 太平洋 (Japanese)
5. Figures of speech
6. "16 e.o."

May 14 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 14

1. Official English Name for Japanese Organisation
2. Whence vs. from whence
3. What is the honorific treatment for a friar?
4. Interpretation of words spelled the same
5. summarizing English language, history, and culture with a brief line or two of verse?
6. Kardomah
7. Is there a free-licensed list of the 65,536 most common English words?

May 15 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 15

1. approximately how many ancient Greek writers would we have any material at all from?
2. Prooemium
3. German estzett versus Greek beta?
4. Know thyself
5. very pregnant

May 16 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 16

1. Translation for film title
2. Brazilian Portuguese help
3. Self services ice cream machine
4. [ʎ]

May 17 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 17

1. Referenced in
2. Hellenic State
3. Reflection

May 18 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 18

1. The Spanish word for hair
2. Why do we write "table" and not "tabel"?

May 19 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 19

1. Agent Smithspeak
2. "marked with"

May 20 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 20

1. Name in Arabic
2. Use of apostrophe with verbal noun
3. Geeks only, maybe: the AT-sign in Latin@
4. German-to-English translation

May 21 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 21

1. Flattery that's hard to understand
2. Sentence in the Article Problem of evil
3. Synthetic language?
4. Are north and south strongly connected with up and down everywhere?

May 22 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 22

1. East Side, West Side
2. Arabic transliteration authority
3. Comma

May 23 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 23

1. Why is Wikipedia not in italics?
2. Meaning of "smell like soup"
3. "Drunk as a fiddler's bitch"
4. "Going stag"
5. French and Italian legislation titles
6. American vs. British English
7. Due by - due when?
8. Yang (surname) media source
9. Bow-wow in Canada and Australia
10. Nonsense on Paper
11. Browsing
12. Académie française

May 24 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 24

1. Writing systems and language type?
2. Double negative

May 25 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 25

1. How old is the English langauge?
2. 2 Question about the English Language
3. English dialects or accents in Northern Canada

May 26 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 26

1. Chinese wall
2. Word for "proper or well-spoken" speech.
3. bumble bee
4. "Tai"/"Vai"

May 27 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 27

1. a "safe" conviction
2. Need help with Arabic reference
3. Identifying mystery language, Part 2 (Ewe?)
4. Suspicious usages
5. Chinese language help
6. Objective test versus subjective test

May 28 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 28

1. Dive Live?
2. Goethe quote

May 29 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 29

1. Can't recognise this Chinese character
2. French tennis terminology

May 30 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 30

1. Possessive apostrophe at the end of sentence
2. Translation: Mandarin to English
3. Online reference desks
4. What does this Chinese say?
5. It was him playing

May 31 Information

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 May 31

1. German-to-English translation: the same scholar seems to have provided two diffrent translations
2. Tibetan script