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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 1

1. What rhymes with "just" /dʒʊst/ ?
2. English Word... from its definition.
3. A good word or phrase to describe this situation

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 2

1. Accents in poetry
2. Is there a word?
3. Why is Google Translate of Japanese so bad?

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 3

1. looking for a literary term
2. Is it harder for a native Chinese speaker to master Korean and Japanese...
3. German word for disorientation of false motion

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 4

1. Coca-cola commercial
2. Jack In The Box Plural
3. salt bloom
4. a comma or a full stop?
5. Finnish question
6. Translation request - Russian --> English
7. Hebrew "yi"

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 5

1. The cucumber is bound to its vine.
2. a long face like a cucumber
3. as sb. well puts it
4. Can a sentence beginning with "more than once" be inverted?
5. "It" or "they" to refer to "a pair of trousers"?
6. dare not think those thoughts any further
7. money from selling apples
8. Does beware stem from be aware?
9. Writing accented letters
10. yokutch language

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 6

1. More than once did I meet him in New York.
2. A term for clothes worn by patients in hospital
3. His mind kept wandering, sometimes to whether... and sometimes to whether...
4. grudge his apples
5. mottled with peeling paint or mottled by the peelings of paint?
6. The sun shines on me heavily.
7. bank up the grave mound with earth
8. a neighbor patient?
9. a word in English for the classmate who shares a desk with me
10. eat congee or drink congee?
11. Use of enlist language word 'clicks' in American action movies
12. Foreign monarchs' names translated
13. VPs
14. Translation request - Chinese
15. Russian Text

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 7

1. wall or walls of the room when I mean the four sides?
2. The bed is propped up by bricks.
3. lift one foot onto the other knee
4. difference between rather than and instead of
5. He is sleeping with the wings of his nose quivering.
6. recurrent crow(or crows) of roosters
7. There is one more apple in his basket than in mine.
8. a cluster of houses
9. fish for a sweet potato in the crack of the ridge
10. Does this make sense? and should I add some stuff more?
11. Leila Fadel

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 8

1. Any difference between "Don't you know it?" & "Do you not know it?"?
2. Why "Somebody said" and the quotation in separate lines?
3. Can "cannot but do sth." & "cannot help doing sth." be used interchangeably?
4. in the hot sun or under the hot sun
5. Is "go into the night on her way back home" good English?
6. She clapped her hands: "That's great!"
7. The apples sold away turned into money.
8. List of items and punctuation
9. on the river beach
10. What a taste

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 9

1. He bent over the desk sleeping.
2. as thin as a rake, reduced to a shadow
3. relatives
4. He was lost to cancer.
5. difference between a wheat field and wheat fields
6. Urban Dictionary
7. What do you call the person who...

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 10

1. doggy speculation
2. Meaning of word "combination"

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 11

1. He can eat a big pizza at one go.
2. Cædmon's Hymn
3. Asking "Do you speak [insert language here]" in French
4. Why is Icelandic such a stable language?
5. Genitive apostrophe
6. Reckless Conduct Endangering Serious Injury

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 12

1. hyperemphasis
2. A wind created ripples on the lake.
3. Rules for alphabetical order
4. Fallize three miles from Namur

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 13

1. Accent identification
2. MASTER'S

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 14

1. Is "us siblings" correct grammar?
2. Tom only allowed me to try a little of his food.
3. He invited John and Mary to his party to the exclusion of Susan.
4. fashion icon, style icon
5. “the longest pole in the tent”

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 15

1. Indecent exposure
2. Two words that are sounded the same but they don't have any etymological or semantic connection

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 16

1. Difference between "god" and "bra"?

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 17

1. What to say if you are greeted with "How are you"?
2. Prefigure v. foreshadow
3. at random
4. why are UK accents far more diverse within a shorter distance than N. Am. accents?
5. Von Bismarck died 20 June 1815

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 18

1. Capitalization of on board
2. Is the Spanish consonant "ch" sounded the same in the past?
3. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate?
4. Arabic translation

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 19

1. in surprised disbelief
2. lean back halfway
3. Comma splice?
4. Word Order

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 20

1. one more question about "lean"
2. Deutsche Physik
3. The pegion is back.
4. Inconsistencies in Sochi Cyrillizations
5. How old is the Arabic language?
6. "knight-rider"?
7. What is the origin of the surname Soulodre and Lecuc?
8. Origins of the surnames "Houdek" and "Vostrejs" and "Roshak" and "Gallenstein" and "Bethel"

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 21

1. Фанера над Парижем
2. resting his upper body on one straightened arm
3. Central and peripheral cases
4. Latin character names in Russian

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 22

1. marry off
2. Translate 2 words of Persian?
3. Imperative forms

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 23

1. throw out his chest upward
2. We agreed for him to go there.
3. the order of adjectives
4. amiable
5. Accents

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 24

1. The bell was sounded for lights out.
2. so saying & with that
3. She met some classmates of ten years earlier.
4. Is there a machine japanese translator?
5. Ambiguous sentence?
6. She introduced to us a few schools right off the reel.
7. sth. is contracted out to sb.
8. at/on the edge

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 25

1. Multi-quote syntax
2. Is ‘subtract’ strictly mathematical?
3. deposit
4. Hebrew translation help
5. tumors on his lung lobes
6. on the appointed day
7. Her nose tingling, she was on the verge of tears.
8. well-fed on the locals' chickens
9. in the early morning & early in the morning
10. a verb for "to smile with one's lips closed without showing his/her teeth"
11. 17th-century portrait: Latin inscription
12. What is the adjective of someone who speaks a lot and repeatedly about something ('harp on')
13. quotations
14. The belief that one country is superior to another

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 26

1. Chinese names for foreign toponyms
2. The name "Twart" as pronounced in England
3. Chinese explanation
4. Translate Star Lord to Chinese?
5. KR in icelandic names

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 27

1. Janowska
2. Hyphens in compound adjectives composed solely of numbers
3. Square brackets with quill

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 February 28

1. She's a different person to me