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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 1

  1. Eastern European naming conventions
  2. Word request

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 2

  1. Asia languages
  2. Existing features under lost estates
  3. Port/dock terminology,
  4. Words on a Chinese date stamp

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 3

  1. Breakfast Cereals Business
  2. reworking a sentence

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 4

  1. Etymology of "order" -- illogical?
  2. Two Chinese questions
  3. Medical terminology
  4. Japanese help: Are the authors of this report independent of the Liceo Mexicano Japonese?

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 5

  1. anecdotally
  2. Language with only three verbs

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 6

  1. History of netiquette conventions
  2. Hindi (?) -> English translation
  3. Correct wording
  4. Trying to find TLS article

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 7

  1. "Pled" vs "Pleaded"?
  2. Right dislocation in English
  3. Parse Tree for lists
  4. "Traveling overseas"
  5. English Quote -> Arabic Translation

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 8

  1. Handwritten list of Anglican bishops of England?
  2. How did people view nature before the Enlightenment?

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 9

  1. Any French ornithologists in the house?
  2. Surname "Iwi"
  3. Nation foundation
  4. Chinese character request

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 11

  1. Why present continuous tense
  2. Japanese help: translating names of Japanese sources listed in Wikipedia discusión:Consultas de borrado/Liceo Mexicano Japonés
  3. Unusual pronunciation pattern

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 12

  1. Possible slang meaning of Czech word
  2. "AAAAAA!" but not "BBBBBB!"
  3. Arabic help: What is the Arabic in the poster?
  4. Chinese Taipei

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 13

  1. Japanese exonyms
  2. Athens and Attica

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 14

  1. "Brunette"
  2. Using "they" even if the gender is known
  3. "Drank out of the wrong bottle" ?
  4. "Knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue"

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 15

  1. wondtacular

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 16

  1. Correct preposition: account ... a website
  2. Proper grammar question
  3. Similar root words, similar meanings...
  4. Pakistan Post motto
  5. Preclude
  6. Transliterating names

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 17

  1. Ces gens dans le Nord
  2. What is this Japanese language source about? Do the authors have a connection to the subject?I
  3. Taking care of living things

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 18

  1. make the list
  2. Triplets of triplets
  3. Correct word
  4. "And" at the beginning of a paragraph

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 19

  1. Not religious. Not agnostic. Not atheist. Just doesn't care.
  2. Czech sentence
  3. Artificial 'boo' in horrors
  4. Euthanize in Spanish
  5. is there a word to describe three vessels merging into one vessel (i.e. as occurs in veins)

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 20

  1. what we're using for a tablecloth
  2. Hypernyms and hyponyms

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 21

  1. Difference between "His main success lies in... " and "His success mainly lies in"
  2. rayoysfirkom? (Soviet acronym in Yiddish)

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 22

  1. Grammticality judgement

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 23

  1. the meaning of "drive"
  2. "Sherpa" as a surname

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 24

  1. "Animal verbs" in foreign languages
  2. Ger. Rössl
  3. Godeschalk / Godescalc

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 25

  1. Hyphen in Moby-Dick
  2. American and British English
  3. Floating a horse's teeth
  4. Self-pronunciation

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 26

  1. Persian help: What is the Persian in this image?
  2. Translating and pronouncing a Russian sentence

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 27

  1. ”une association de défense des victimes de dérives sectaires”
  2. Refracty bits
  3. Articles in three-gendered versions of Swedish
  4. Upper case F

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 28

  1. Request for translating a list of Japanese sources into English
  2. the number and the size of cities

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 29

  1. year-era
  2. the meaning of "zap the fire out of a person"
  3. Request: Transcribe Japanese sentences at the top of a page in a PDF file
  4. Talking a lot but is fake sounding
  5. Question about Polyglossia article and Liceo Mexicano Japones

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 30

  1. the meaning of "tools"
  2. Nationality Issue for Spanish Catalan biographical articles
  3. French help: What does this news broadcast say about "Stellar Airways" (Congolese airline)
  4. ENGLISH: Soaring Wings?
  5. Siderian vs sidereal