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[edit] January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 1

  1. Color me curious
  2. Japanese 'th'
  3. I need Korean names for Korean characters.
  4. Latin (2)
  5. 凤玲

[edit] January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 2

  1. Sinhalese please?
  2. German-English translation needed
  3. Latin Sentence
  4. Kanji name trend?
  5. please translate to spanish. thank you
  6. World's biggest English sentence

[edit] January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 3

  1. Parent Languages of Arabic
  2. Malayalam spelling and transliteration
  3. Vietnamese
  4. Chinese

[edit] January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 4

  1. Negative Form of Need
  2. Which Language And
  3. Bulgarian: medical treatment at the witch
  4. Months!
  5. Help with Italian

[edit] January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 5

  1. Most "untranslatable" English novel
  2. Correct wording

[edit] January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 6

  1. 愛
  2. Looking for French poem/poet
  3. usum, nutum
  4. What does "making out" in American English mean exactly?
  5. Inscriptions on Continental Currency (US)

[edit] January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 7

  1. Cardinal/Ordinal patterns in English
  2. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 7#Arch (arch) and arch (ark)|Arch (arch) and arch (ark)]]
  3. Attaboy?
  4. So who has the accent?
  5. Persian
  6. "9/11 Truth Movement" in Turkish?

[edit] January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 8

  1. 19th-century English "Of an afternoon"
  2. Chinese sign
  3. Hernando Colon / family crest
  4. Hello, where did the phrase "to the table" become popular?
  5. Origins
  6. I have a terribly low proficiency for languages
  7. カイダー字 or カイダーディー
  8. Writer's error?
  9. Furbish
  10. Roneotyped

[edit] January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 9

  1. Love
  2. ATM machine and PIN number
  3. V-words associated with anger
  4. What do you call a list of movies, articles, etc. which won a certain award?
  5. Hi, why is the word 'refrain' such a contradiction?

[edit] January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 10

  1. Names for the parts of a rasher of bacon in Spanish
  2. "Wet room"
  3. Correct wording #2
  4. Latin "v"
  5. Latin Sentence
  6. looking for the word that means a test or trial
  7. Meaning of "DZ" in Chinese/Taiwanese/Asian products
  8. Why is it beheading?

[edit] January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 11

  1. Completely unknown language
  2. Ordinata
  3. French "e" and English "s"
  4. Commas in english

[edit] January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 12

  1. definition
  2. Finding a Word
  3. Help with French pronunciation
  4. All right vs. Alright
  5. Shittle
  6. Calique?
  7. Surname prefixes

[edit] January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 13

  1. A request to review Zen
  2. Latin
  3. Hound of the Baskervilles
  4. "To Be"
  5. Is disrespect a word?
  6. "Night" and "eight"

[edit] January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 14

  1. it can't be helped that there's a lot of it about
  2. English phrase in telephone conversation
  3. Get Fuzzy
  4. Latin Phrase
  5. English Idiom
  6. About "wireless"

[edit] January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 15

  1. James, Ya'qub
  2. Periclean Age in German?
  3. Dissolving tiling grout in a toilet bowl
  4. Formalitate

[edit] January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 16

  1. Latin
  2. Basic JC-1 H2 Economics help needed
  3. Last name first
  4. -ing
  5. Sanctity
  6. Etc.
  7. Translation from German into English

[edit] January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 17

  1. Basic grammar
  2. Semantics
  3. What do you call this?
  4. one word for "the final destination"
  5. Is an independant contractor a "subordinate"?
  6. Arzhaan
  7. sorting problem
  8. Him
  9. Difference?
  10. Gerund or Compound Predicate

[edit] January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 18

  1. English Slang word myder
  2. When history was wrtten the final page will say..
  3. "rocks" meaning 'sports'??? ("rocks a 240x400 pixel screen")
  4. Exemplary exam questions

[edit] January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 19

  1. Punctuation
  2. English to Tamil translation
  3. Surnames relating to animals and birds
  4. Latin Sentence
  5. Singular and plural
  6. The Bahamas
  7. Use of consonant f as s

[edit] January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 20

  1. Question: Idiom
  2. mafia, how is it pronounced?
  3. English grammar ...
  4. Tocus

[edit] January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 21

  1. Economics 101
  2. Kipper (medieval)
  3. like a wedding, only again just to confirm your commitment
  4. Andromache
  5. Odd construction
  6. Better wording
  7. Capitolinus Mons / Mons Capitolinus
  8. Poetic nonsense

[edit] January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 22

  1. NO EXIT in multiple languages
  2. How do americans sound to brits?
  3. Global Phoneme Frequency
  4. German article genders
  5. Japanese To English
  6. Hentaigana
  7. Gulzaar e akbari
  8. Bang/dead to rights
  9. "America"
  10. Latin to English Translation

[edit] January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 23

  1. The ich-Laut in beschäftigt
  2. Polish-to-English translation
  3. Capitalization
  4. Poetic nonsense II
  5. How do you put Japanese words in "alphabetical order"?

[edit] January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 24

  1. What does the Danish word 'læsebillede' mean?
  2. What's "Anti-Climax" in German?
  3. Urdu POETRY translation
  4. ADVICE please
  5. retroactive legitimacy

[edit] January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 25

  1. Mas
  2. Antonym
  3. Inuvik language?
  4. Quickie request
  5. How do they do that?
  6. How to pronounce wikipedia
  7. Homo Sapiens

[edit] January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 26

  1. Nesace, from Poe's Al Aaraaf
  2. On the one hand.... on the other hand
  3. "chandail de hockey"
  4. Synonym
  5. Written Okinawan

[edit] January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 27

  1. Spanish translation question
  2. gas trouble, Indian English?
  3. to the manner born
  4. IPA help
  5. Grammar

[edit] January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 28

  1. Lwding Leonardo Salas
  2. Greek in Scotland

[edit] January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 29

  1. "La Mano Desasida"
  2. Lithuanian
  3. Source of a quote
  4. Capitalisation, Manual of Style

[edit] January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 30

  1. Auderiense
  2. Spanish

[edit] January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 January 31

  1. Written Okinawan
  2. Adverb of "Hard"
  3. Usage: cost and costs
  4. spelling translation
  5. Communicating with few words