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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 1

1. The study of borders
2. Meaning
3. Russian translation
4. grape variety pronunciation
5. What does Sjt. Prefix stand for in English.
6. Recording Spanish Internet Radio Talk Shows in MP3 format
7. Strange english sentences to latin sentences
8. Pron. of leucism

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 2

1. French in Lady Gaga song
2. pronunciation and language

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 3

1. "Only" used as a contrast
2. Crusader states
3. English Scientific Word For Language Area (Not Broca's Area)
4. What does OP stand for?
5. German: Why are umlauts not considered allophones?
6. Two Loanwords With Similar Meanings
7. cat > feline ; badger > meline?
8. Lawyer and liar pronunciation

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 4

1. Extra. Full. Stops.
2. Standard English usage for "of"
3. Etymology of "Just So Stories"
4. Is there a name for this odd use of "local"?
5. Indirect Speech; and a second question which is about the Use of If and When
6. Parents

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 5

1. Threat?
2. Old Norse
3. Spanish Main
4. Switching syllables in two words to comic effect

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 6

1. Dumb words and expressions
2. Is the following sentece acceptable?
3. Medieval word meaning
4. Palatalization in English
5. Term/name for different "flavors" of a (math) denotaton?
6. subject vs citizen
7. Bird law
8. What does khazh mean?
9. Are these guillemets?
10. Rusyn people
11. Geographic appositives

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 7

1. English - "Metropolis" or something else
2. Latin ↔ Cyrillic converter for Tatar

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 8

1. Full stops
2. MEANING OF £ IS ?
3. "Wanna"

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 9

1. Duck Duck Goose
2. audio-ization?
3. Politeness and grammar
4. maths
5. Compound sentence
6. Pronunciation of Italian (?) surname: Mucchi
7. 1000 words of a language
8. Simple Dutch translation, please
9. request for advice on arabic textbooks
10. Latin and German

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 10

1. other languages that can understand Romani
2. Translate this word
3. Just out of curiosity...
4. The Blower's Daughter
5. English spelling

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 11

1. Prison learning
2. IPA - terribly confused
3. What kind of a food is Wikipedia?
4. Shoogun Froid
5. Another Middle English word definition
6. Van Gogh
7. Using comma

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 12

1. Flour and Flower
2. What is the German word for button, you know the ones with the pins on the back?
3. The Finnish girl's name Päivi

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 13

1. 苏荷
2. A term for this class of words?
3. would

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 14

1. How do English-speaking Canadians pronounce "Quebec"?

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 15

1. Snot
2. Dirty cities
3. Pen (writing instrument)
4. Wallachia
5. Comma before "and"
6. One sentence paragraphs
7. Mahmoud

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 16

1. the name of a test
2. Poll + pollex
3. WI-FI
4. How do you pronounce years 2009, 2012 etc.. ?
5. Pronunciation of comfortable
6. Chain conundrums, anyone?

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 17

1. grammatical antipattern used in advertising
2. Japanese translation
3. I'm collecting words which can't end sentences (properly).

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 18

1. Is ‘lo’ or ‘laa’ the correct version for ‘law’?
2. Translation From Polish
3. Link between "boreal" and "arboreal" ?
4. "Don"/"Dan" river names
5. Mispronouncing "et cetera" as "ek cetera"
6. Quotation along the lines of "You haven't lived until..."

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 19

1. "Obligated"?
2. Exchange messages from
3. Not only am I not that thing OR Not only I am not that thing?
4. special
5. Not to want
6. Usage of "Our friend"

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 20

1. Fireplace accessory
2. Roma (or Romani) for Gypsy
3. Latin to English translation software
4. Latin Inscription

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 21

1. Bowden cable pronunciation
2. "offhand"
3. What is the biggest language without its own Wikipedia?
4. identify a language from annoyingly inadequate information

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 22

1. Does the Oxford English Dictionary mention same-sex marriage?
2. Unidentified symbol from a rebus
3. Simple context-free grammar for English

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 23

1. Minimum requirements for a complete language
2. "probando"
3. Proto-computer data-bank system
4. Diallelus
5. Philosophy
6. Obviate
7. nom de morte
8. ...and still another German question
9. Ambiguity in English Syntax

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 24

1. What does this say
2. O Fortuna
3. Italicization in cursive handwriting
4. Ikonganaku
5. Help with (archaic) Dutch translation
6. The use of "ibid."

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 25

1. In business usage, does "payroll" include "benefits" ?
2. Questions about the use of prepositions
3. Sport Abbrevations?
4. Etymology of religiosity

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 26

1. French translation
2. ffrench and fforde
3. Danish Translation
4. Bulgarian Scientist
5. Use of a negated auxiliary verb in English
6. APA Citation, More than six authors, same last name and year, but different article.
7. Cyrillic Writing But Which Language?
8. Thanksgiving irony

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 27

1. Tuner - a movie musical?
2. Byzantine surnames
3. Use or nonuse of prepositions
4. Search for examples of non-pronounced H and for explainations
5. "Etc." in French
6. "Tens of ..." vs. "Dozens of ..."

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 28

1. IPA usage
2. similar words
3. 14th Century names - "fil'"
4. Pronunciation of where and river
5. Sanskrit word for war

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 29

1. Ann
2. Datasets for phonetic and cognational analysis of natural languages.

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2009 November 30

1. Word for ancient military
2. 'Cream' in coffee
3. Appointment
4. Foal-boat split?