Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2008

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[edit] June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 1

  1. reëxamining
  2. wait until next shoe drop
  3. Feldherrnhalle
  4. Learning a language online
  5. Phrases sharing initials
  6. Meaning of word 'skin horse'

[edit] June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 2

  1. Plural vs Singular
  2. Loser's folly
  3. Verkündung der Wehrfreiheit (Germany, 1935)
  4. Usage of word "aspect"
  5. "mille e tre" in Leporello's catalogue aria (Don Giovanni)
  6. Latvian question
  7. Catcher in the Rye
  8. Russian questions

[edit] June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 3

  1. Orwell
  2. who and whom
  3. Parenthesis in quotations
  4. German translation
  5. "Eitherly"

[edit] June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 4

  1. Poss ess
  2. ORIGIONAL SCRIPTURES OF INDIA
  3. Please interpret this sentence
  4. Meaning
  5. Skuta

[edit] June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 5

  1. Section8
  2. Translation of text on an image
  3. Words ending in Z
  4. Auxiliary verbs in English
  5. "Five years of fighting"
  6. Poem analysis...?
  7. Examples of languages with pre-noun and post-noun placement of adjectives

[edit] June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 6

  1. Plural of Destruction
  2. Latin Check
  3. Feminine endings in English
  4. The individual pasta unit
  5. what does "they" refer
  6. walk enclosure
  7. Donacor
  8. Russian questions

[edit] June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 7

  1. Vowel in "hören"
  2. Looking for a word.
  3. German word oder "Es handelt sich hier um.."
  4. Improving accent
  5. Language in a can?
  6. The origin of the term RIP when used to describe a computer generated printout
  7. Referring to words
  8. Full stop before/after quotation mark
  9. Chinese character 枚
  10. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 7#Is there a word for this: a noun for the place where a child has been raised vs. born?|Is there a word for this: a noun for the place where a child has been raised vs. born?]]
  11. Italian swears