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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 1

1. Club soda
2. Nominalization of comparisons in English
3. Can one say: (a few) "flowers of senecio" in one word? or "flowers of groundsel" in one word?
4. Ye Olde English

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 2

1. What is/are the Spanish term(s) for "UFO"?
2. Different uses of the word pretty
3. What is the author alluding to by "the footballer"
4. Verb tense question
5. Need a name for a Spanish warship.

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 3

1. Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Watzdorf
2. Grand fromage

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 4

1. Paradox
2. Adverbs that are not
3. Renaissance boy
4. 'Two and a half times smaller'
5. 'Two times bigger!'

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 5

1. Chinese: Requests for translations of short content
2. deafening self-consciousness
3. Is it appropriate to use "ecclesiastical" as a synonym for "religious"?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 6

1. It's literally the antonym of itself.
2. Loan collection

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 7

1. Ecclesiastes 9:11
2. Any idea what this means?
3. lever themselves upward
4. Japanese words for video, clip, motion picture, etc.

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 8

1. The word "heavy" in air traffic controller lingo
2. under a sky of white
3. Looking after their environments
4. Japanese Expression For.....

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 9

1. Arabic al/el
2. chalkies
3. Now you can’t get enough of it
4. Skiprope and Hopscotch
5. true
6. resemblances ceased and girls
7. Lifestyle Consutants(Every Child Matters)
8. Odd use of capitalization in the United States Constitution

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 10

1. at every point
2. British English in the '40s
3. Latin translation

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 11

1. French o'clock
2. Voiceless lateral fricative [ ɬ ] vs approximant [ l̥ ]
3. Original Greek for "hope...is a waking dream"
4. Serial comma - why no semi-colons?

August 12

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1. "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word"

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 14

1. Banned keywords on Chinese Internet/servers
2. "Hard cheese"
3. Spanish

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 15

1. "The only type of person I hold no remorse for is one given a miracle but who refuses to take advantage of it."
2. "have been" vs. "have"

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 16

1. Subject-verb agreement in en-gb

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 17

1. Become overrun
2. particular type of question
3. Democolacs
4. Old English Adjectives as substantives
5. Is there a word in English for this?
6. 3rd-person singulars of "to degas" and "to diminuendo"?
7. Subtitles for people speaking in English

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 18

1. Proper-hyphen-ation
2. zero/O

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 19

1. Chinese request: MH370
2. Grammar Correction

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 20

1. Theravada Buddhists: Pali or Sanskrit?
2. Abbreviation "Ag" in German place names
3. Pronunciation of Greek surname
4. comma question on names
5. Meaning of leporello in Italian

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 21

1. Cryptic Pregnancy in Chinese
2. What was that again?
3. How did the Iago Sparrow get that name?
4. Translation of Shakespeare's date of death
5. Alphabetical order
6. A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon, you're talking real money

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 22

1. Capitalization for officeholders
2. Period placement for quotation at end of sentence
3. neutral or beneficial
4. what did disco mean in the 19th century?

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 23

1. German Phrase
2. "Community driven development" vs "Community-driven development"

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 24

1. Económcia (Spanish spelling)
2. Adjectives based on English names?
3. Voiced consonants and devoicing

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 25

1. Big what?
2. quasi-demiurgic
3. Sequence of multiple adjectives in English
4. What are gunsails?
5. French doctor needed on the Chateau de la Croë
6. Word definition

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 26

1. Introducing oneself as "Myself [insert name here]"
2. Greenhalgh
3. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 27

1. hindi translation
2. Expressing parents and grown children living together?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 28

1. General term for Uncle Tom ?
2. Why do synonyms exist?

August 29

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August 30

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August 31

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