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[edit] May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 1

  1. Very Unique?
  2. English grammar: need confirmation before article edits
  3. Children's songs in unknown languages
  4. What is the English title for this story?

[edit] May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 2

  1. Suggestions for the language ref desk
  2. Translation from Arabic to English of Tahrir-ol-vasyleh
  3. estúpido
  4. Mis-cegenation
  5. It is, is it?
  6. Abdoulaye Wade
  7. English r
  8. Translation
  9. Symbolism

[edit] May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 3

  1. is this correct
  2. Malay translations
  3. Words for Food
  4. Language Samples
  5. How to pronounce
  6. Biosphere
  7. Most languages?

[edit] May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 4

  1. French translation needed
  2. Footnotes
  3. Arabic or muslim tanslation of Will (William)
  4. Japanese record cover
  5. back--not a preposition?
  6. why did the chicken cross the road?

[edit] May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 5

  1. Origin of "Ahoy!"
  2. What Is the Opposite of "Alter Ego"
  3. Hence, however.
  4. What is the name that the Chinese give porcelain?
  5. Measurements
  6. The Use of "Antithesis" in Other Languages
  7. What's the rule that...
  8. Arabic graffiti
  9. Aking about a phrase
  10. Historical use of the word 'natural' to mean 'illegitimate'

[edit] May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 6

  1. Miles vs. kilometers
  2. Dropping of final e in Italian
  3. closed/close
  4. What's the verb/word?
  5. Derren Brown
  6. Which Dutch bookseller accepts credit cards?
  7. languages with the greatest number of words.

[edit] May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 7

  1. how to speak english
  2. Jon English, and a dentist in Zagreb
  3. Esperanto - How hard to learn
  4. Comma's

[edit] May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 8

  1. Literature
  2. rabic userpage
  3. Is a divorced uncle still an uncle?
  4. Coffee matters
  5. Learning Japanese

[edit] May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 9

  1. What does Quebecois pronunciation mean??
  2. Ojibwe language for Manitoulin Island?
  3. Standard for writing out numbers
  4. german translation
  5. What's the "shiz-niggle?"
  6. Japanese questions
  7. Some help with a German word

[edit] May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 10

  1. nglish sounds like. . .
  2. in too deep
  3. ranslate "Be all that you can be" into German
  4. Translating "pickles" into french
  5. Znüni

[edit] May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 11

  1. Can you all help?
  2. Comma question
  3. Rasputin
  4. Breathless Whispy sort of sound

[edit] May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 12

  1. Spear/Distaff or Paternal/Maternal?
  2. Children, Offspring, Infants, Issues, Progeny
  3. Serbian sign at a church
  4. Shakespeare past tense
  5. "at a loss" vs. "at loss"
  6. English to Latin Translation
  7. name this gesture
  8. Scottish 'sh'

[edit] May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 13

  1. close and closed --- related?
  2. ten years old?

[edit] May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 14

  1. emplate
  2. Russian Etymology - QUESTION re resources
  3. Publishing a fantasy novel
  4. OULINDECHEROUS
  5. List of English letters/phonetics
  6. Origin of the Slang word Grand
  7. translation for talk page
  8. Prestidigitation

[edit] May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 15

  1. Pronouncing Hebrew words related to Hanukkah
  2. english to hebrew language
  3. Allegedly and similar adverbs
  4. Follow up question on disjunct
  5. Using erzählen with von
  6. offer advice for/on/about...
  7. POSSESIVES 'S AND S'
  8. Spanish wiki
  9. Type O Negative
  10. Mssrs.
  11. What does the acronym 'Bebo' stand for
  12. Urine
  13. Arab for "prison"

[edit] May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 16

  1. Categorical Assertion
  2. what language is this?
  3. missing words and mispronunciation
  4. Anglo-Saxon word formation
  5. Useage of IS/ARE
  6. Proverbs?
  7. Need help with Hebrew in a new article
  8. french schools

[edit] May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 17

  1. Italics
  2. Help with Sentence Structure
  3. Hop Schwiz
  4. Who was Joseph M. Williams ?
  5. HELP with word "Advise"
  6. Music ID
  7. "at" or "with"

[edit] May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 18

  1. Twelfth Night
  2. 'Prince' as 'ruler' in the 19th century
  3. apostrophe or not apostrophe... that is the question
  4. Eco-terrorism confusion
  5. Old Norse dialects--Old Swedish vs Old Danish
  6. spelling the word palatte

[edit] May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 19

  1. Learning a second language online.
  2. Walter Dean Myers
  3. kashrut
  4. Americanism: "write you"

[edit] May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 20

  1. Blood preposition
  2. job/name coincidence

[edit] May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 21

  1. Counterintelligence

[edit] May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 22

  1. Russian word "стрёмe"
  2. rench book title
  3. apitalization

[edit] May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 23

  1. Translator Please!
  2. titles in a sentence
  3. Latin translation help
  4. Native modern Greek speaker needed: vocalisation of some consonants
  5. "Not half" in British slang
  6. ranslation of old photos
  7. Old Jokes
  8. a type of knowledge

[edit] May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 24

  1. internet or Internet ?
  2. [wikt:however|However]]
  3. IS or ARE ?
  4. Chinese character identification.
  5. People from Colombia?
  6. "just kidding" figure of speech

[edit] May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 25

  1. rench book titles again
  2. "Laughing Stock"
  3. Grammar question on spelling and then writing numbers
  4. default

[edit] May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 26

  1. Hyphenated gerunds
  2. Aid'e Memoir or Aid d' Memoir?
  3. Surname sorting of names beginning with "de"
  4. Bokmal and Nynorsk (2)
  5. How long has it been done?

[edit] May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 27

  1. Italian wiki article
  2. Figures of Speech

[edit] May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 28

  1. Unknown Language
  2. Identification of kanji
  3. The" before foreign book title
  4. Cringworthy spelling
  5. Just curious...
  6. explicit and explicitly
  7. "memore of his ristrettezze"

[edit] May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 29

  1. Asinine
  2. Farmers golf
  3. Facade(with a long a) or Facade(with a short a)
  4. uestion on aprostrofy's
  5. ering Strait pronunciation
  6. Two name pronounciation questions
  7. poem
  8. Information Lost in Time

[edit] May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 30

  1. Naal
  2. If English has a hundred words for money...
  3. I can't read Dutch
  4. lbania
  5. What do you call this?

[edit] May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 31

  1. Czech language
  2. Inherently unpleasant words?
  3. The english language is causing me headaches!
  4. Der Wörter?
  5. Caribbean
  6. Dedis
  7. French Translations
  8. Correct use of the word "that" in a sentence