Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/May 2013
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May 1
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- Arabic, Chinese, and Greek help: What are the characters in these documents?
- "to Temp" food
- Relationship between Pashto and Persian
- Beating
- Scrutator
May 2
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- -ton ending
- Basic grammar for non-native learner
- Renaming of categories relating to the Hwaseong Fortress at the Wikimedia Commons
May 3
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- what is difference between "would you?" and "will you?"
- Different Arabs with different varieties tell apart
- German translation
- What is the name of this news article in Arabic?
- 2 shots at 2 targets
- Anyone read Azerbaijani?
- Why is Arabic not used in aircraft crash accident reports?
May 4
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May 5
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May 6
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- Pronunciation of the indefinite article 'a'
- In English, What is the word with the most synonyms?
- Spanish translation jigger
- Chinese transliteration
- Nick needs Polishing
- Cream of Leek Soup
May 7
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- translation to Venetian please
- Does anybodies really talks this ways?
- Elision in Latin
- Looking for a word that has this meaning...
- Editors/Censors
May 8
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May 9
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May 10
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- "... not creates it"
- Rice cake ingredients in Chinese need translation.
- Learning several languages at the same time
- Kanji variants
May 11
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May 12
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May 13
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- the meaning of "rameish"
- Best German answer
- Hebrew (?) text
- Dalmatian resources?
- Chinese help: True Jesus Church
May 14
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- Phrases from the NYtimes book review "A Feast for the Senses"
- count vs matter
- European Esperanto Union
May 15
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- Addendum vocabulary: Annex, Appendix, and Schedule
- Concise
- Slavic place names
- Polish pronunciation for an English-speaker
May 16
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May 18
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- Is an allegedly terrible historical figure known mainly from later writing a "villain"?
- What does Maryann chant?
May 19
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- critter words with a certain stress pattern
- JIM CROW What is the origin of this term, meaning discriminatory laws against African Americans
May 20
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May 21
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- Wash the car? Not my remit.
- More kanji variants
- neuter sanskrit gender in asana names
- Odd message received by me
- Does the verb “to deface” implies a bad faith?
- What is the Chinese on the sign?
- Portuguese names
- Plot device terminology
- "believe" or "believe in"?
- Trucker lingo
May 22
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- Five more times => five times more?
- Is the term "Multichannel video programming distributor" used outside the United States?
- Offenbach synagogue
- The definition of the Greek word Metaphon that is no longer in use.
May 23
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- Trying to make an acronym/initialism sentence for SHANGRI
- English title of a Kant's work
- Word describing style of speech
- what is the Chinese name for Vaisakhi?
May 24
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May 25
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- Question about a word found in the article Hindu milk miracle
- Billfold or Wallet
- Chipping/Koping
- Vulgate
May 26
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- Hollandia
- Day of the week/date punctuation
- One English word which describes both "type of solution" and "type of expression"
- What do Seita and Setsuko say at 5:07 in this video?
- Semivowels and lax vowels
May 27
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May 28
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May 29
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May 30
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- Polish and German speakers needed to check sources an article.
- Cancer village in China
- Living out of a car