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November 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 1

  1. UIR WORDS
  2. In the field of bank or banking sector
  3. Conjunction question
  4. Bantu noun classes & multiple nouns
  5. Gioja
  6. the extent to which languages sound alike
  7. Brandywell Stadium
  8. French 's'
  9. Correct form

November 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 2

  1. German to English translation request
  2. 'On accident' or 'by accident'?
  3. Kanji variants
  4. Butt

November 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 3

  1. Lieutenant Governor
  2. Adverbesque words
  3. French sound
  4. Vocab questions.
  5. meaning of abbreviation ROC

November 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 4

  1. "Deep and profound"
  2. Spanish dictionary

November 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 5

  1. Verbs in French
  2. Why doesn't Google's translator have an option to translate Austrian into English?
  3. Ureter

November 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 6

  1. –st
  2. Crimson and Clover
  3. Greek or Latin for database
  4. anchor off, anchored off
  5. Regarding South Indian Dravidian Langauges.

November 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 7

  1. Term for coincidental repeated appearance of a word
  2. Eventuated?
  3. Vitamin D

November 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 8

  1. Confused by grammatical terms
  2. Arabic help
  3. new shool slang-what does this mean...?

November 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 9

  1. Tip of the tongue
  2. Capitalisation
  3. movie playlist - what is the word
  4. bussiness communication

November 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 10

  1. radar
  2. Bilingualism in the world
  3. Pronunciation for Norman surname
  4. English to Spanish translation request
  5. COINTELPRO
  6. Develop a virus

November 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 11

  1. Kurdish as Iranic language
  2. Proper translation of Chinese novel title
  3. Eponymous
  4. "LRT horse van"?
  5. soroptimist
  6. 美国 - Chinese name for the United States
  7. Scottish English

November 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 12

  1. Chimata de uwasa no
  2. I have or I have got?
  3. Business
  4. Pronunciation of 'Bispham'

November 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 13

  1. French expression
  2. prevalence of the conjugations in latin

November 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 14

  1. Unexpected use of "incunabula"
  2. Non-drip gloss paint
  3. Using Wikis to improve student writing - action-research articles?
  4. need major help diagramming this sentence.
  5. Violent macho expressions

November 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 15

  1. "Forget me not" vs "Don't forget me"
  2. Haitian Creole grammar
  3. Portuguese Translation
  4. Looking for a word
  5. Too/overly minimal pairs

November 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 16

  1. Spanish "ir", "estar" and "ser"
  2. Rhetoric
  3. translation request
  4. Looking for a French news with French subtitles
  5. Heavily Germanized Latin challenge
  6. Stalin's name in Spanish

November 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 17

  1. Japanese polite negatives
  2. Question for polyglots, what does it mean to be able to understand a language but not "know it"?
  3. International Phonetic Alphabet
  4. Saint Anne, Alderney
  5. French

November 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 18

  1. Origins of the word prat
  2. English grammar: Tense in reported speech
  3. Names in Jokes

November 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 19

  1. Blazing Saddles en español
  2. What does 'พ่อมึงตาย' mean?
  3. Scripture notation
  4. Pronunciation of "aunt"
  5. "Data store" or "datastore"?

November 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 20

  1. Within an inch of its life
  2. the N word
  3. Language in 14th century England
  4. Japanese characters help
  5. Bulgarian help
  6. Pronunciation of Latin "Niger" and "niger"
  7. Margin of excellence
  8. Spanish flap

November 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 21

  1. Translation arabic - english
  2. Wehe
  3. Works Cited
  4. Grammatical number of plural-sounding place names in Spanish

November 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 22

  1. Asian language film
  2. Most popular U.S. president worldwide
  3. Destiny Turns on the Radio
  4. "Hauptkustus"/"Hauptkuatos"
  5. Quick question: Japanese
  6. Old Boy (manga) - Japanese help
  7. What does "Fragko" mean? (Greek, I'm assuming)

November 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 23

  1. Fast food restaurants in Montreal
  2. Weapons of Maths Instruction
  3. The repetative repeated repeats repeat repeatedly.
  4. Bowling pigeons?
  5. Would anybody care to proof-read my documented essay on the Chilean mining incident?
  6. Angel Land

November 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 24

  1. Before the junk jokes
  2. Would it be wrong to leave out the "is"?

November 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 25

  1. sociopath- pronunciation
  2. Basis for La Spezia-Rimini line
  3. Some assistance with Argentinian statistics from a Spanish speaker?
  4. Accent used by Carrie Kenny on Kim Possible
  5. "thelonious" meaning and origin
  6. Spinoff question - what dialect of English is this?
  7. Quantity/unit dash when in adjective position

November 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 26

  1. off of
  2. scansion in virgil
  3. Meaning of "control" as a French word
  4. This - That - These - Those
  5. The girl's name Perri
  6. terminological inexactitude

November 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 27

  1. Repetition of 'is' in specific phrases
  2. Wealth Obliges
  3. Cantonese phrase
  4. Latin help please
  5. Is performancewise a word?
  6. Scandinavian names

November 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 28

  1. Malayalam and Tamil

November 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 29

  1. Part of speech for please
  2. Correct use of hyphens
  3. Polish translation
  4. After colons and semicolons
  5. Katana = Equinox?
  6. T-glottalization in American "kitten" etc.
  7. As easy as pie origin

November 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 November 30

  1. Rioplatense "vos" conjugation
  2. Image vs picture
  3. Past of the past
  4. "Named for"
  5. the mystery schwa
  6. Vowels and English verb forms