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[edit] November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 1

1. Jr. and Sr. within an alphabetized list
2. Latin word needed

[edit] November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 2

1. -tröm surnames
2. Issue page
3. Children's vs Adult's voices (x-posted from Science refdesk)
4. Coombeshead College
5. People from Niger
6. latin
7. Name syntax
8. translation

[edit] November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 3

1. latin sentence
2. how do you say this scottish greeting?
3. Homographic homophonic autantonym
4. 'Music technology' French
5. Romanian verb question

[edit] November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 4

1. Junction in spanish
2. 19 year old - man or teenager?
3. latin phrase
4. firenze vs. florence
5. !nosine

[edit] November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 5

1. Superlative Adjectives
2. latin
3. Endogeny/endogeneity ?
4. list of language schools (teaching English) in a city in Italy
5. italian

[edit] November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 6

1. "North" wind
2. French to English translation of album titles
3. Translitering Russian.
4. "the one who hired me"
5. Naming conventions

[edit] November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 7

1. Chinese months and days
2. Norwegian Document
3. "Doer" nouns
4. Order of Concepts

[edit] November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 8

1. Mercury
2. Vowel Shifts
3. French vs. English
4. students trap in a University
5. question about form of letter
6. the term "maDEEya" for grandmother
7. Pronounciation of the Irish Boy's Forename "Degan"
8. How do you translate "mother bear" into Spanish?

[edit] November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 9

1. African Death Chants
2. Japanese game name translation
3. what is the meaning of the the following sentence
4. respondeo dicendum
5. American "r" sound

[edit] November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 10

1. Never...Never...Never...Never...ARGH!
2. Deaf naming
3. Gender of coined words in Latin
4. Erstwhile object
5. Not quite a troll, not quite a sock puppet

[edit] November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 11

1. Japanese field
2. translation from latin
3. sufficientiae, by Avicenna
4. Use of 'absolutely' and Spanish 'absolutamente'
5. Incorrect plurarily?
6. Website
7. Merry Christmas!

[edit] November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 12

1. Gwenwynwyn ab Owain Cyfeiliog

[edit] November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 13

1. Is 'emblemism' a legitimate word?
2. "quo est" and "quod est"
3. Veterans Day
4. Mangled proverb
5. Lithuanianlish?
6. Gay French Slang
7. Schadenfreude

[edit] November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 14

1. Translation of unknown language in Arabic script
2. Word for mixing sociolects?
3. What's the word for...
4. Zanber
5. Short sentence from French!

[edit] November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 15

1. Election party
2. Virgil's epitaph

[edit] November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 16

1. Who can read the (Chinese?) writing on this coin
2. Linguistic term needed
3. looking for the word that means: "to black out certain information in a report or transcript"
4. Japanese album title

[edit] November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 17

1. Meaning of Oscar in Gaelic
2. Latin Questions
3. Meaning of Japanese term "ganbare"
4. how do you say issue in spanish
5. oil spill in spanish

[edit] November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 18

1. Norwegian Document
2. Stiff upper lip
3. Alfred Nobel
4. APT ENGLISH WORD FOR 3/4
5. Chinese writing in restaurant

[edit] November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 19

1. English to Finnish translation
2. Why come?
3. Specific name
4. essay
5. Is Wikipedia available in languages other than English?

[edit] November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 20

1. type of t...
2. "Coal mining region" or "Coal-mining region"?
3. From Busby Berkeley article
4. Trying to determine a singular pronunciation of what I believe is a plural word.

[edit] November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 21

1. Are prepositions ending a sentence really so bad?
2. Translation from German
3. Possessive of hyphenated phrase?
4. What is the proper phrase?
5. Correct past tense of verb
6. shoule?
7. German Idiom for "double edged swords"
8. some general questions about languages
9. words with the most meanings in various languages
10. Johnson, et al.

[edit] November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 22

1. Latin word
2. Thanksgiving

[edit] November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 23

1. Vigil verb
2. If you are in India, can you say to a woman that she is a cow?
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 23#It's not who you know, it's whom you know|It's not who you know, it's whom you know]]
4. Finding subject in certain sentence.
5. J'sais aps
6. general question about eloquence in languages

[edit] November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 24

1. Latin: hoc aliquid
2. Latin quickie!
3. grove in spanish
4. thirst quench in spanish
5. honeydew in spanish
6. orchard in spanish

[edit] November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 25

1. Zero is plural?
2. Capitalizing/italicizing "The"
3. Norwegian Document
4. Middle Norwegian Alphabet
5. Is Welsh pronounced cum-rag?
6. non nobis solum
7. Meaning of "Danilia"

[edit] November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 26

1. Short latin translation
2. Hirohito's speech: 1945 and afterwards
3. Romaji titles for Japanese patents
4. history of Alphabets
5. the word "cut"
6. uncivilize?
7. Arabic Question
8. Trepidation

[edit] November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 27

1. Ksar Akil
2. "Surrendre" and "Se rendre"

[edit] November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 28

1. 1337? Foreign 1337?
2. Sentence construction -- 'me' followed by verb-ing
3. The Japanese and Chinese languages
4. Poem suggestions
5. aka sgt
6. Bungs

[edit] November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 29

1. Arrant Pedantry?
2. Latin
3. Russian dictionaries
4. Etymology of ENGLAND - Angle or Hengist??
5. "The splits"
6. what does 'P’Tang, Yang, Kipperbang mean?

[edit] November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 November 30

1. Accents in second languages
2. "You're an absolute shower!"
3. hebdomadibus
4. hourensou
5. Hellenistic poem
6. What language is this?
7. What is cod when it isn't a fish?
8. Elim
9. Language test comparison
10. Can you say 'start from null'?