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January 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 1

  1. Does Aromanian possess grammatic cases?
  2. What is the word for a baby unicorn?
  3. Determination on reliability of Portuguese source needed

January 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 2

  1. Is the grammar understandable?
  2. Wow

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 3

  1. Apostrophe & Pronunciation
  2. Pronunciation of "slew"
  3. "more slender" or "slenderer"?
  4. Number governed by "each"
  5. Bar at the top of the letter J
  6. Japanese question

January 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 4

  1. Icelandic Names and Naming Conventions

January 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 5

  1. Is endos a Japanese or English word and what does it mean?
  2. A man is knighted and a woman is...?
  3. Lay and laid
  4. Getting the shaft
  5. A rat by any other name...
  6. Cambodian/Khmer help
  7. Is there a database of lyrics with faulty language?

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 6

  1. Difference between for example and for instance ?

January 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 7

  1. Eragrostis = lovegrass : why that name ?
  2. Why does "unsafest" sound wrong?
  3. Subject, class, course ?
  4. Spanish

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 8

  1. Is "renowned" derived from a verb?
  2. Request for translation of Latin epitaph
  3. Pronunciation of "Lefebvre"

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 9

  1. Przy Pikrynie i Trotylu
  2. Difference between "Play" and "Drama"!
  3. Falling in Love Again - translation problem

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 10

  1. 1647 French birth record

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 11

  1. Spanish/Galician help
  2. Website for obscure words
  3. History of Belgium
  4. Bill
  5. Voiceless dental affricate
  6. Mid 19th century (or earlier) dialect question..
  7. Help Identifying a Short Story - Kipling I think
  8. Board room

January 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 12

  1. French translation of tablet
  2. Michigan
  3. "-ise" or "-ize"?

January 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 13

  1. Name of a Korean cooking device

January 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 14

  1. Need help with what this statement means?
  2. Term used to describe a technique
  3. Awkward phrasing: double negative sentence, what is the meaning?
  4. How to pronounce Leonowens
  5. Nursing in the UK

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 15

  1. "His face was drawn but the curtains were real"
  2. Appropriate word
  3. Collective nouns
  4. Wikivoyage related

January 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 16

  1. "Taped" = "pre-recorded", no matter what medium is really used?
  2. Bengali name for "Peel District School Board"
  3. Tuu tii tu tööti tuu
  4. The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
  5. Hindi and Punjabi names for New York City Department of Education
  6. Hebrew name for New York City Department of Education

January 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 17

  1. Spell Chekcer software
  2. Polish - Home

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 18

  1. Has the NYC-area phrase "to stand on line" replaced the phrase "to stand in line" in any other dialects?
  2. "A shot at the title"
  3. Of Mice and Men
  4. Chinese Syllabary?
  5. How to apologize in French
  6. Languages without distinct plurals ?

January 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 19

  1. Pika = Pikachu ?
  2. Pronunciation of Fouvry

January 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 20

  1. Half a dozen

January 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 21

  1. Choose Your Own Adventure Book Cover Fonts
  2. aqua
  3. Is this a sentence?
  4. From Cinema to English Vocabulary
  5. Any definition difference between lights and colors
  6. What the Bible's book are most translated?

January 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 22

  1. Typos in Chinese and Japanese
  2. Proposing an ambiguous spelling
  3. Weird adage
  4. Letters as designations?
  5. What can you say about the readability of the short paragraph?

January 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 23

  1. Ramaré
  2. Trnaslation to French
  3. Pronunciation of French names

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 24

  1. Identify three (Japanese?) characters in Brian Austin Green tattoo?

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 25

  1. Türkmenbaşy
  2. Use of "then".
  3. Is there an English equivalent to the Chinese proverb 好汉不吃眼前亏?
  4. Dependent and independent clauses

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 26

  1. tak
  2. Passive voice
  3. Please do better than Google Translate
  4. Overuse of the progressive

January 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 27

  1. Language evolution after disaster
  2. Pronunciation of "online": a or an before "online"?
  3. What is this accent?

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 28

  1. "Women writers"
  2. Equivalence for spiel?
  3. Maker subculture
  4. Druggist, apothecary, pharmacist

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 29

  1. Between / among
  2. Requesting translation from Italian to English
  3. Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力
  4. interbreeding vs. outbreeding
  5. Is contemporary then, now or either?
  6. Words with supposed antonyms but are actually synonyms?
  7. Stage Language
  8. Register and French/Germanic word origins

January 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 30

  1. Aboriginal swearing - Translation from Latin
  2. Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
  3. Short translation into Polish
  4. Is this really a rule in English?

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 January 31

  1. What is it Westergren?
  2. (Non-)Mutual intelligibility of Russian and Serbo-Croatian
  3. Vietnamese help
  4. Mustafa Farrah
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