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[edit] December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 1

1. etymology of utica
2. Grammaticality of depictions

[edit] December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 2

1. Arabic word's meaning
2. What catagory do prepositions belong to? Lexical or functional?
3. English translation of the Chinese word "姑息"
4. "Wax on, wax off"
5. Hindi Words of Arabic Origin
6. Paramount chief in Spanish

[edit] December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 3

1. Battle of creativities
2. 'South-South cooperation'
3. Translate to Japanese
4. tr" and "str" letter combos
5. integrity of data

[edit] December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 4

1. "Me siento muy vacío" (TV commercial)
2. Can you make up a language?
3. German translation, bitte
4. Abracos fortes
5. Raining tea
6. Use of 'times' throughout the times

[edit] December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 5

1. ebrew
2. Irony?
3. schrodinger's cat
4. Finnish computer error message?
5. A dutch equivilent of the term "freethought"?
6. nglish
7. apitalization in Titles
8. henever?

[edit] December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 6

1. greek language
2. Abiento
3. od rest ye merry gentlemen
4. Pronunciation of "J"
5. id I?
6. Origin of the name Cabragh? Do you think it is a corruption of Gabragh?
7. How would you translate this from Polish to English?
8. "scrubs" meaning operating theater dress.
9. Forms of Poetry
10. The Catcher in the rye

[edit] December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 7

1. Which Songs Are These?
2. Need to know how to say this phrase in Choctaw
3. cherokee language
4. translation help?
5. Native speakers
6. Latin translation request
7. Serbo-Croatian or ??
8. 'Third party'
9. kipping "on" in sentences
10. Question about "st" in German , in words like "ist" en bist"
11. help
12. multitude of grammar issues

[edit] December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 8

1. Saying originator
2. o longer an insult
3. Do it yourself
4. racial or slang terms
5. Query regarding language

[edit] December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 10

1. ENGLISH TO COPTIC..PLEASE
2. "Crossing the bar"

[edit] December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 11

1. Classical and Modern Greek?
2. J in 4th position
3. Old German Word for "tank"
4. ranzabal
5. What language used in mid/late 20th C. Skopje?
6. Drug eluting stents
7. first verse of French poem that begins, "quand vous serez veille et decrepit" by whom?.
8. what does this mean?
9. english
10. Farsi script translation
11. arawakan online language dictionary
12. Bye vs. Cya

[edit] December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 12

1. idealogy v ideology
2. "She" as "it"
3. I Like to See it Lap the Miles by Emily Dickinson
4. ord for a person who has a love for teaching
5. Spanish
6. sofa, couch, settee
7. "Linking L" in Brazilian Portuguese?
8. Letter ending: yours
9. Dramatic vs. Theatrical qualities

[edit] December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 13

1. Book Review
2. IPA Starter
3. ynonym
4. Unidentified Soup
5. Please help define Hindi/Sanskrit word
6. Where is the Stremnaya Road, and what does "stremnaya" mean?
7. Where is the Stremnaya Road? Is it in Bolivia? What does "stremnaya" mean?

[edit] December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 14

1. Wikipedia tutorial on spotting/eliminating redundant words
2. Parts of Speech
3. Or
4. off of
5. tow, row
6. Pronunciation of Adum (Kumasi, Ghana)
7. Brother's Wife
8. Once upon a time, in Spanish
9. Indescribable
10. Just how much of this IS the title?
11. Pronounciation

[edit] December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 15

1. Hidden cultural references?
2. Latin to English Translation
3. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
4. The Tiger and the Hare
5. e questo è un uomo
6. To Indent or Not to Indent
7. PATIENT - SHE or HE
8. Sanskrit
9. Swedish word
10. antique markings
11. PATIENT - SHE or HE?
12. third son and sixth?
13. translation
14. Spacing in abbreviations

[edit] December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 16

1. Concurrent education
2. Unknown language, unknown meaning.
3. This was printed in a Turkish Newspaper
4. origin of the word yahoo.
5. The ease with which required information can be found.
6. Is tehre a wikipedai spellign bot?
7. rere Jacques in Dutch and other languages
8. go in for sports
9. ong in unknown language

[edit] December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 17

1. orient vs. orientate
2. Please Help Me Out... (rhyme scheme)
3. Lost Word
4. etymology of word "forgive"
5. How to use, "Drink, Drank, Drunk, and Drunken," correctly.
6. Flapjack
7. asque minimal pair
8. My Melody of Love

[edit] December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 18

1. Queen-size" in French
2. unjabi and Hindi fonts
3. English Language tests
4. Commmunication skills
5. Uniform spelling of a Rebekah
6. punctuation

[edit] December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 20

1. Pluralizing brain
2. Sinophile
3. ea Soup - Fog
4. apanese/French
5. Donner..?

[edit] December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 21

1. Russian>English: a memorial inscription in Latvia
2. Rumbula protest banner text: Latvian(?)>English
3. Curious about George.

[edit] December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 22

1. Conjunctions
2. etnus
3. Unknown language /meaning in school song

[edit] December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 23

1. reudian slip
2. rench Numbers

[edit] December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 24

[edit] December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 25

[edit] December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 26

1. Uh huh...
2. Querer in the preterite
3. How would I say this in Dutch?
4. Homely
5. Latin definition: Cost
6. Ji
7. putting words
8. Thai Language
9. hindi lecturer position

[edit] December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 27

1. linking acticals in other lanuguages
2. Language
3. My/Mine
4. reflexive 1st person plural pronouns in German
5. crossword help
6. Vae victis

[edit] December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 28

1. What does "tucci" mean?
2. translation of an article from spanish wikipedia to english
3. About the lost of information
4. word trivia --- gry puzzle
5. Chernobyl, and The End is Nigh
6. Looking for a word that describes opposites

[edit] December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 29

1. Throw your mother's old shoes
2. Fourteenth Century Old English of words "Iesus" and "god"
3. Definition of word "Jesus"
4. American Independece - Greek lnaguage

[edit] December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 30

1. Pronounciation of the Irish or Scottish Gaelic word "Cailleach"?
2. English language expressions
3. British Sign Language
4. The word *Unreached*
5. Petrarch's "De Viris Illustribus"
6. language

[edit] December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 31

1. Help with translation
2. symbols
3. Plural of "Software"
4. Latin translation of a Petrarch work title