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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 1

1. Meaning of Korean first name Isang
2. Graudejus (surname)
3. Only too happy
4. Concrete Roofing
5. Latin

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 2

1. Auxiliary verbs
2. How is Leeuwenhoek pronounced?
3. Italian dentals
4. was used to
5. Irregular elative cases of Semitic/Qhàŕàbijhh?: ŕàkhmàn
6. Singular or plural
7. Another Italian question

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 3

1. Dutch Het
2. Leaving monkhood
3. Slander and libel in online social contexts
4. Language learning
5. Deewa / Pashto
6. differentiate Slavic languages

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 4

1. Danish letter
2. Help Desk Query
3. How did British English and American English come to use different quotation marks?
4. Two passages in Dutch
5. Entymology of "-ish"
6. Latin
7. Compass directions
8. Asterisk and interpretation

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 5

1. French for 'Bless you'
2. Jackeen?
3. Bad poetry
4. What does the word "udderly" mean?
5. Should "the" be used with abbreviations such as NOAA
6. Quick translation of Russian (from 1917)
7. "I'm finished working with these pictures"
8. Four-week month
9. Asterisks
10. Word

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 6

1. French gerund
2. The upcoming Hebrew year
3. French Language learning
4. communication
5. give up, etc.
6. Osmosis
7. Why is "Jew boy" considered derogatory?
8. "parashah" + "portion" etymology
9. Looking for a Spanish word
10. How go languages deal with template messages?
11. What is a hyponym to another hyponym?
12. Chinese phrase - what is a proper translation?

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 7

1. You don't dip your bread in, you mean?
2. Red (given name)
3. Up and down, the verbs

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 8

1. Japanese pronunciation
2. Xury

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 9

1. " Ridiculously hot"
2. Existential Threat
3. Everybody Hurts
4. Bestemor
5. What Is The CP

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 10

1. Antonyms
2. Language
3. Spanish phrase
4. Languages in the USA. English in the world

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 11

1. Linguistic Change
2. parsing Chinese sentence
3. Correction of translation
4. Space Languages
5. The Situation

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 12

1. Reference Desk
2. Tress, trix and tor
3. Jupiter Elicius
4. Learning
5. Your vs You're
6. What does this mean?
7. Still extant vs extant

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 13

1. Translation help
2. Diacritics
3. Grammatical gender in English as to states
4. 1st place ‘from’ 2nd place, 'from' 3rd
5. Is this a word?
6. Seduce
7. Limited number of words
8. Chinese girls named Fenny

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 14

1. "knowledgeable of a certain field"
2. Academic Exams
3. Apostrophe confusion

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 15

1. French idiom
2. Emma Zunz - mistranslation?
3. Since recently
4. word for decorative arrangement...
5. Coins that are 1/10 of dollar
6. Is there or has there ever been a language that used a phonetic alphabet?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 16

1. At what point does a metaphor become an established additional meaning of a word?
2. Mandarin Chinese
3. Temporal Adjectives
4. Latin?
5. German word for the soft inner part of a bread loaf
6. Rap "izzle" language
7. Ham sandwich
8. Time and (time) again

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 17

1. Which is correct (plural/singular).
2. Treatment of initial r/n in North Korea
3. Talk like a pirate day
4. Nepali text
5. Usage of "intuitive"
6. Origin and meaning of "deep sneakers"

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 18

1. Phonetic equipment
2. Films with American accents
3. "Hometown"
4. Homofuerst

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 19

1. How do you pronounce "Hu Tieu My Tho" in Vietnamese?
2. Oldest Language
3. Plural number of “tetrapylon”
4. Need help with some Japanese words.
5. 风玲 and 凤玲
6. How to call someone and relation therebetween
7. There is a home in New Orleans...
8. Clave
9. Man
10. Friend

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 20

1. Old English
2. Website Summary
3. Latin translation request
4. Translation in French
5. Spanish pronunciation

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 21

1. American/British English differences? BBC UK's use of "with"...
2. Latin help
3. Close/tight-knit communities
4. Passive voice

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 22

1. "Troop:" plural until killed, then 1 equals a troop?
2. "Indeed there is"
3. Origins of the American accent
4. Philo-
5. Castellano
6. Romeo and Juliet

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 23

1. Correct preposition for "claims made"?
2. Etymology, First attestation of "Lord Love a Duck"
3. Slang and adding words
4. Picture Assonance

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 24

1. French

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 25

1. Machine translation
2. Variety of English taught in China
3. English language in Quebec
4. French Food
5. Lithuanian?
6. "Luke"

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 26

1. Flapping in English - Throwback or innovation?
2. Independent Clause
3. Grammar tenses
4. Xhosa clicks, places of articulation
5. Size of vocabulary required to understand TV?
6. "He asked who was the murderer", is this legitimate in an indirect speech (whether formal or informal)?
7. Totally incorrect translation.
8. Zina Zaflow

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 27

1. To comma or not to comma
2. Latin translation
3. pronouncing Eugen
4. A few questions about accents...
5. is refutal a word?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 28

1. Off a cliff or Over the cliff
2. Etymology of "Rani"
3. British overseas territories
4. Russian journal title
5. Minimalist languages
6. Death(s)
7. Proper word for a type of analog switch
8. French word for "machines"
9. Downstream [of] the filters
10. Russian words used in english
11. grammatical correction
12. Rules for c and g
13. Ćevapčići
14. "How Town"

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 29

1. Surely this was two errors in one sentence?
2. French politesse
3. Meaning of multiple 1s
4. ghost
5. What does "bum bandit" mean in American English?
6. Was LaFawnduh a real name given before Napoleon Dynamite came out?
7. Translation request from English to Arabic

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 September 30

1. When one thing is many
2. Broke/broken/break down
3. What does "No Wangers" mean?
4. Can one say "He is broad" (i.e. fat, or has broad shoulders, and likewise)?