Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2011
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June 1
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- Complementary distribution of the allophones of /θ/
- Infinite forms of "Dare" and "Need" as modal verbs.
June 2
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June 3
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- What does Como una flor que necesita el aqua Sin tu amor se marchita mi alma mean in Spanish?
- Pitman shorthand
- Lower case titles / upper case titles
- Swedish Wikipedia / admin who speaks English
- Turkish neologisms
- "a part" vs. "part"
- Etymology of two Japanese names?
June 4
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- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Deity pronouns in Chinese
- Isaiah 25:6
- Yes, please
- What does this Latin phrase mean?
- Two side of the same coin?
June 5
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June 7
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- Indonesian help
- Armenian help
- Spellings with 3 pronunciations
- 9 letter English word
- What does this edit summary mean? Language Unknown
- Happy Birthday in German
- Can you refer to an inanimate entity as 'who'
June 8
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June 9
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June 10
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- what language is this?
- Jack (connector)
- What is an imagefilm?
- Italian
- The pronunciation of "iron" in non-rhotic dialects
- Regurgitate
June 11
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June 12
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June 13
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- "Poor little" and "Big old"
- Appeal to age? Argumentum ad...
- Swedish/German translation question
- Is there a word (or term) for "self-fortification-after-being-heavily-used"?
June 14
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- Japanese translation request
- X as a prefix
- Hakka Chinese Romanization
- x-j switch in Spanish-American places
June 15
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- When did Proto-Indo-European split up into its different sub-branches?
- For any two pairs of languages, how many commons speakers are there worldwide?
- Smokey Stover comic image
- "Ham"
- Spanish Translation of an article
- Hebrew: counterintuitive deleting order of niqqud
June 16
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- Everybody Loves Reimund?
- How do you spell "Manuchi"?
- A different language?
- Meaning "jumps"
- National demonyms and politeness
June 17
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- "jiggity-jog"
- presti-jicus
- Under multiple wings
- 'etymology' or history of 'bat shit'
- German "zug" (in all its meanings) in English
- /r/ in Italian vs Spanish
June 18
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June 19
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June 20
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- Opposite of paedophile
- Parrots
- pronunciation of Arthurian names
- Where Is The Evidence That Every Subsequent Language Learned Makes It Easier
- Identifying unfamiliar languages by their leaving a "signature", e.g. characteristic consonant clusters, etc.
- English in the future
June 21
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- "Experience" vs. "experiences"
- Old Church Slavonic
- What is the word please?
- The meaning of the Latin word "sed"
June 22
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June 23
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- How is Ø written?
- speaking foreign words in Swedish
- Cockle' pills ? Stays ?
- "methods of" vs "methods for"
- Two sets of brackets coming together like this (blah)(blah blah)
- Practical Drawl
June 24
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- Term for a form of political dishonesty
- Qui-hi
- What do you call it when an instruction is phrased like a question? (and other questions)
- I'd like some [real-world] vandalism translated
- Claim in Antidisestablishmentarianism
- Wagon Pars - speak 'iranian' ?
June 25
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June 26
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- Translate to Hawaiian
- Good resource for learning the Queen's English (RP) accent?
- Chinese reading help
- Grammar structure
- transitive uses of "dissemble"
June 27
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June 28
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- Chinese verbal particles and complements
- Question about the word "HAVE" in Latin
- Questions on meanings of some words from Mrs Amworth
- Fussable Chasselais
- Korean text
June 29
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- Wikisource template in Korean
- Rockefeller University motto
- Different alphabets/scripts/writing systems
- Distinct reflexive pronouns
- "She" or "Her"?
- Chart of suffix-based verb derivatives in English.