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[edit] August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 1

  1. Chinese translation
  2. Pronunciation
  3. Marked nouns in English
  4. What are Delation and Zele
  5. Pottery translation
  6. Manual

[edit] August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 2

  1. Logical fallacy.
  2. Australian vs English Accent
  3. Non-Surety Bond
  4. to play catchup
  5. Usage of English
  6. Drop that idiom!
  7. Free dictionary for download
  8. Hard to pronounce, but I did it
  9. Yes instead of Da in a Russian movie
  10. Polish: ryńskich
  11. Slimeball

[edit] August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 3

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Period in numbers
  3. Greece letters

[edit] August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 4

  1. Bokmal and Nynorsk (3)
  2. Etymology of gentleman
  3. Whose?

[edit] August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 5

  1. Could you please translate this letter?
  2. Language, personal description
  3. Greek letters for leet
  4. French expression
  5. My Bad . . . ?

[edit] August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 6

  1. MLA Citation
  2. Is the English "duh" derived from the Русский (Russian) "da"?
  3. Wilwarks
  4. Grand Prix
  5. English speakers
  6. Ordinal Numbers

[edit] August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 7

  1. Languages without open vowels
  2. Translating simple letters from english into spanish
  3. What did CJK type cases look like?
  4. Re wording sentence
  5. "God Forbid" in Arabic
  6. Trio

[edit] August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 8

  1. correct preposition use
  2. how many sign languages exist? roughly?
  3. Listening foreign languages

[edit] August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 9

  1. A member of Jehovah's Witnesses
  2. Old and modern Greek
  3. Question about an old question
  4. English-to-Latin Phrase
  5. The Third Degree
  6. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
  7. nil einne (or éinne) - who recognises this? & Irish speakers

[edit] August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 10

  1. Vietnamese phonology - Hanoi dialect
  2. English Statements
  3. "Four twenty six"?
  4. Female curves?

[edit] August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 11

  1. According to orthodox Hindu interpretation
  2. Pronunciation

[edit] August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 12

  1. Camarista Vespertina
  2. Ladies and germs
  3. "There goes..."
  4. Here you go
  5. Identify accent
  6. Discrimination definition
  7. Farty

[edit] August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 13

  1. Japanese pronunciation
  2. Cantonese translation
  3. Grammar vs Syntax
  4. Spelling query - inimitable
  5. It's an X thing, you wouldn't understand
  6. Is this correct English?
  7. Finland Speak English?
  8. Does climate affect language evolution

[edit] August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 14

  1. Latin conjugation: "veni"
  2. Pronunciation: Are
  3. schooling in australia
  4. Pronunciation of 'J' in German

[edit] August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 15

  1. The fisrt name 'TRILBY'
  2. "Cartridge paper"
  3. beowulf
  4. beowulf -q2
  5. Number of words needed to be able to understand a language

[edit] August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 16

  1. Polish Translations
  2. Reword this sentence
  3. Spanish translations
  4. French in Haiti?
  5. In the following sentence, which eventuality is more likely?
  6. Phrase Origin(s): "Flood [them] with paperwork"
  7. translate
  8. Bereweeke
  9. HTML, XHTML , (X)HTML, X(HTML)

[edit] August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 18

  1. Null day (perhaps)
  2. Logical language
  3. The Word "Colonel"

[edit] August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 19

  1. Questions to ask Japanese exchange students
  2. Word for the skin that sloughs off after sunburn
  3. "infandum regina iubes renovare dolorem"
  4. 14th century english
  5. How are (were) newly-encountered languages translated?
  6. Translation from Polish

[edit] August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 20

  1. "Metamagic"
  2. Weird symbols in Japanese email addresses
  3. uneyclopedic
  4. "ae" versus "æ"
  5. uk place names
  6. Gallumph
  7. What is this called?
  8. Spanish names

[edit] August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 21

  1. sioux alphabet
  2. French equivalent?
  3. Font overview
  4. Cidade de Deus
  5. Duffel bags
  6. Burmese writing implement?
  7. Lovci Myslenek

[edit] August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 22

  1. Semantics ... Triplets vs. Twins
  2. Name @ please
  3. Tongue Twisters

[edit] August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 23

  1. Unser Vater - German Our Father prayer
  2. Further
  3. Book review
  4. Sanskrit
  5. Irregular nouns and apostrophes
  6. Japanese translation: seeking sources about Yuji Ide to add to Wikipedia article
  7. Letters Patent
  8. What would you call this?
  9. Etymology
  10. Have or Haven't

[edit] August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 24

  1. Translate japaneses please (re-ask)
  2. Go Like Who-Dray-Gah
  3. Noddy
  4. Greek first name in Latin transliteration
  5. not much, wazoo with you?
  6. Malice as a verb

[edit] August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 25

  1. Question
  2. Pronounciation of the name "Tuomas" in Finnish
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 25#|]]
  4. Is the following sentence grammatical?
  5. Feet/Feat of Clay
  6. On foot vs. by foot
  7. Bilingual

[edit] August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 26

  1. CREATIVE WRITING --- SENTENCE OR PARAGRAPH STYLE
  2. Hyphen
  3. The word 'consultant'

[edit] August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 27

  1. I'm not loving it
  2. English to Latin http://babelfish.altavista.com/
  3. Numbers
  4. how do u type this?
  5. Semantics

[edit] August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 28

  1. Hindi to English
  2. Luggage
  3. Are these grammatically correct?
  4. Automatic Esperanto to English translations?

[edit] August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 29

  1. Word Category
  2. nordic floating s
  3. Swedish/Japanese pidgin or creoles

[edit] August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 30

  1. Daffynitions
  2. "To be lame" meaning
  3. Translations
  4. torinese/torinesi
  5. "Internet"
  6. The space between
  7. Puzzle
  8. The word exercise

[edit] August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August 31

  1. Hello Africa, tell me how you doing?
  2. German to English
  3. Language identification (Russian or Latin?)
  4. Russian Song