Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/February 2017

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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 1

1. Claudit semper fenestram antequam cenat
2. Guitbass
3. Why do Canadians sound like Americans?

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 2

1. Sweet Dreams are made of...?
2. Resources for writing style

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 4

1. Why is there a city called Nyala in Sudan
2. Explain a joke
3. Malay phrase "sikit sikit lama lama jadi bukit"
4. Why website not English version but company and product names still in English?

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 5

1. Possible Murray-Merry and Kerry-Curry merger or reversal
2. Rat-arsed
3. How can IPA represent general nasalization?
4. Short translation

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 6

1. Crocide
2. asshole

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 7

1. Adjective to describe event that didn't happen
2. Italian proficiency certificate
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
4. Cyrillic translation please

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 8

1. "Équitable et transparente"
2. Are both sentences right?
3. Korean surnames

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 9

1. why is Greece not named Hellas in English?
2. de question is...
3. PRC's "Outstanding Domestic Animated Series" this (or past) quarter
4. Br English "ageing"

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 12

1. Zhang Mi 張泌/张泌

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 13

1. Handwriting
2. How do I officially get a word changed?

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 14

1. "It"
2. Min Chinese possibly?
3. Feeling blue
4. Turning old w into modern v
5. Longest English word
6. What is "pay in black"?

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 15

1. Deceased person's name in red
2. "Yea, buns, and buns, and buns!"
3. Narrowing as a verb?

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 16

1. The "day" part of Chinese dates
2. Word that did sounds like swout and means hinder

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 17

1. Wheel war
2. Traditional vs simplified Chinese?
3. Macrofamily

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 18

1. Mayors of Yazd
2. Language in signs: Cyrillic Mongolian or Russian?
3. English usage question...
4. Name for non-face cards in a deck

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 19

1. Hamadan Terminal

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 20

1. How did “like” change from a noun meaning “body” to the modern verb?
2. Finger thing

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 21

1. How did British and American English come to differ?
2. Bad Man
3. All said and done

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 23

1. Another Term for Strategic Thinker
2. Are people illiterate if their native language does not have a written form?

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 24

1. Written varieties of Chinese
2. Youku video menu
3. Sometimes They Come Back: sea and sunsets
4. semantic primes

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 25

1. "Da mache ich nicht mit!"
2. Ambonese - Amboyna

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 27

1. fried hardware
2. Evgeny or Yevgeny?

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 February 28

1. United States of America(n) Armed Forces
2. Diocese and its plural
3. the blue yonder
4. Does "far" mean "falling"?
5. Rephrase