Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2012
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- Word or expression that originally meant literally what it said but no longer means literally what it says, but is still in use
- So many/much xyz, so little time !
- Please translate the following
- Japanese romanization
- Price with 3 letter currency
June 7
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- Commander of ancient ships that aren't triremes
- Now then, Lord Arthur, who dragged whom around the walls of what?
- Latin case marking and subject/object ambiguity
- Italian phonotactics
- Oil-oc continuum?
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- The Bucket Lady's Dishy Vicar's Wife's Accent?
- Free Software suitable for making subsets from a wordlist?
- Japanese
- Gentile lettore, gentile lettrice,
June 11
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June 12
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- "British Rail is poised on the edge of a precipice."
- Is the Hymn to Liberty in Dimotiki or Katharevousa?
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- liberty, liberté, libertad, libertà
- Word
- Possesion with apostrophies.
- Hindi
- A Language Biased Toward Itself
June 16
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- Another neologism please?
- word said in French
- male scent
- Languages of Luxembourg
- Chhandas(Poetic metres) in hindi
- Ainu names
June 19
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- When did we stop putting full stops in initialisms?
- Shifting accents in Spanish? (hidalguía)
- deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning and ???
- very strange complete misspelling
June 21
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- Faroese lyric translation?
- "The court requested the two sides to attempt to settle the matter."
- Name of Guinea-Bissau
June 22
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- “I have refused 12 girls, 9 has refused me” In this phrase shouldn’t we use “9 have refused me”?
- Moon mentioned by Iran space agency page in Persian
- Quick question about peacock terms
- Shortest Words
- Yiddish
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- Chinese posthumous names
- triple crown in volleyball
- Name of this Italian sculptor's piece
- Catch-22s?
June 28
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- Homework help! Please help me write without close paraphrasing.
- Furigana in newspapers (Japanese)
- Danish
- Junk Dealer
- Arabic translation "to witness"
June 29
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- 'Backwards' compound words
- Male/female language
- defense line
- "Mir ist heiß"
- I'm looking for a word...