Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2008

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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 1

1. Second language acquisition for reading
2. Can't Remember the Word
3. How many words do we know?
4. How to say everything and nothing at the same time
5. Gayelle and LexusNexus
6. The Advancement of Learning
7. Collective nouns in British English
8. Is a coroner a police officer ?
9. also can't remember a word
10. American Accent: Pronunciation of have
11. japanese and chinese characters

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 2

1. Etymology of Pachelbel
2. Comprise
3. Gateau
4. whats the difference
5. New Hampshire Demonym
6. Why does the Nat King Cole song LOVE say "can"?

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 3

1. Japanese Sound Symbolism
2. Full Sized Yoon
3. Carl vs. Kyle
4. Gray tomatoes
5. dont ignore
6. "X-ray" or "X ray"
7. Writing for several Wikipedias in different languages

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 4

1. "In bed"
2. To/or
3. "Extra" symbols in devanagari - sanskrit
4. What is the origin of "to haze" ?
5. Driving directions
6. Grammar Error in NYT headline?
7. English language going back to the middle ages
8. Maltese language: Semitic form vs Romance form
9. Bang the Drum Slowly

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 5

1. cretivity and achievement in english
2. horse or reindeer riding accessory
3. That's not a biscuit!
4. Swahili greetings

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 6

1. becoming a conference interpreter without a degree?
2. "Can not" vs. "cannot" in the 1860s
3. Would I be wrong in using the word "reinstatement" to recall an employee who resigned the job voluntarily
4. "whose" or "of which" - when referring to inanimate objects
5. "London, England". D'oh!

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 7

1. A plus...
2. British English vs. American English
3. "[Noun] is bias"

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 8

1. Words
2. How do you correctly spell, "dubious"?
3. Hebrew translation
4. Synonym for "split up"
5. Sponsored run?
6. What does "to be instructed in the ways of sth" mean?
7. Word Meaning a Small Input Causing a Large Output
8. Spelling help.

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 9

1. Continental European writing with American spelling
2. LOL Catz
3. "Placename" or "place name"?
4. Faroese or Swedish surname?
5. codswallop
6. Phrase origination advice

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 10

1. Niiko in Somali
2. What's the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary?
3. Requesting language support

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 11

1. French quotation marks
2. Early Spanish-English Phrasebook
3. What does the Spanish word 'guarrindonga' mean?
4. A challenge by a whisker

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 12

1. Synonym problem (AGAIN, please help)!
2. Noun

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 13

1. An Alternative to Synoptic?
2. interpreter's training (e.g. ba program or a certificate) that doesn't have a bachelor's degree prerequisite
3. Order of English adjectives
4. night and day
5. dialoguer - to dialogue
6. Pronunciation of are at the beginning of sentences.

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 14

1. pronunciation
2. Thrown under the bus
3. Favouritism to ones family or siblings
4. can we imagine sentences much faster than we can speak them?
5. "Mispronounced" eponyms
6. Chinese puns
7. French translation of Divina Commedia's "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"
8. correct term for a baby hedgehog
9. Japanese

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 15

1. Greek Translation: Odyssey
2. 1942 Japanese map
3. English to Mongolian translation
4. Leverage: the verb
5. 'starting crying '
6. Invaginated meaning introverted

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 17

1. Why doesn't anybody pronounce Dick Cheney's name right?
2. Thesaurus
3. German Translation of "Defective by Design" (done)
4. Kinship terms in languages
5. Latin Tournament

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 18

1. What do you call a person...
2. German help
3. Ryukyuan languages#Writing_system
4. BOX or CARTON
5. Random initial capital Letters

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 19

1. how do you pronouce phoenix?
2. origin of phrase "roll up the sidewalk"
3. Someone vandalised the Wales section
4. What's the word for?
5. Clutch (sports)

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 20

1. AARGH! What's the word...
2. Gòngchǎndǎng in Wades-Giles
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 20#|]]
4. Jail/prison?
5. Common Grammar Questions
6. Splitted
7. 'Common' words used in only one 'situation'
8. Jerk, nerd, dork, geek, wuss

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 21

1. Tom cruise translation?
2. How cold is it in Germany?
3. Top 10 most spoken?
4. synonym for "startup"
5. Name of a shape
6. Mnemonic versus Acronym?

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 22

1. Latin translation please?
2. A couple of questions on French

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 23

1. sapir-whorf hypothesis
2. linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism?
3. Need 'one word' for a meaning
4. South Wales
5. Treatment of the plural representation of a singular concept
6. two Russian questions
7. Fun with Latin
8. wheezing in spanish

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 24

1. French term « accuser un coup » — what does it mean?
2. how do you pronouce ayelie?
3. portuguese translation request
4. Ryukyuan languages#Writing_system
5. Get Fuzzy
6. Quotation conundrum
7. spelling
8. Hebrew translation: What does it means?
9. To twist a rope of sand
10. History book madness!

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 25

1. Russian names
2. Chinese: Mono-syllabic?
3. What are those character?
4. All nighter
5. Persian : "لاك"
6. Illiterate sheep questioner?

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 26

1. Wikipedia talk?
2. Japanese family history

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 27

1. Sylly
2. Arabic name in IPA?
3. "commute bw. A and B" = "live between A and B"?
4. Science desk Help Wanted

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 28

1. Chinese transcription
2. Old Venetian forms of address
3. "Countach"
4. Translate Basque to Chinese
5. Which words dont belong
6. Opposites
7. Colbyesque
8. Letter square problem

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 29

1. Ancient Hellenistic cruise/party ship
2. Cantonese Writing
3. latin gerund
4. Chinese term
5. The BBC is a Quack!
6. Phrase in Ma Baker
7. Simple grammar of English

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2008 April 30

1. how do i say yes or no to another person's sentence
2. Try and do something
3. Translation from German to English
4. Spanish: tener la cabeza como un marmolillo
5. Not a problem
6. Plurals
7. Translation
8. breton
9. DDs
10. Japanese word