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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 1

1. British accent
2. Hitoshi Doi
3. Bora Bora
4. "Providing that" vs. "Provided that". Is one of them more common?
5. Negative energy

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 2

1. WHO is the oldest AEthnia: Abissinia[Aetiopya] YUDAEUS, EGYPTIAN, helens[ greek] TRAKS, dacians, DOICH , DUCH,?

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 3

1. Term in singular for SS personnel on a Nazi concentration camp staff
2. Portal symptoms
3. Japanese: Pronunciation of ～す
4. the meaning of "blow me away"

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 4

1. Christian name : "Spruille" ?
2. to be blown up = shell shock ?
3. Priced to Own

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 5

1. French translation
2. Jzn. (Dutch abbreviation)
3. Tequila effect
4. Heads of Agreement

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 6

1. Pinyin "iong"

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 7

1. Agreeance
2. Origins of African-American first names
3. French help: "Unknown control"
4. 'Utot' related to 'toot'?

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 8

1. Learning Yiddish
2. English in Bollywood

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 9

1. Massacre
2. Chinese help

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 10

1. The role of nouns
2. He remarried to
3. French R
4. captions
5. I need help in understanding these sentences.
6. Sindhi and Gujarati language similarities

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 11

1. Chinese names for places in North Korea?
2. Question about punctuation (again)
3. German sein in the past tense
4. Spanish Speaking wikipedia check out a table for me...
5. Prepositions

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 12

1. Ejective consonants
2. Italian help
3. Grammar
4. As knows him..?
5. Civil Union in Spanish

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 13

1. Seraiki Sindh Punjab pakistan districts
2. Water Tankering
3. Ramayana etymologies
4. Grammar dispute

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 14

1. Typographical device using bold and regular without whitespace.
2. Name by which Venetians referred/refer to outsiders

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 15

1. Horses; "up for claim"?
2. νέφος - modern or ancient Greek?
3. Norwegian
4. Letter to a Dean (freedom fighter's discount)
5. "of" superfluous or no?

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 16

1. Always Fiddling -- translated into Latin
2. Most correct way to say 'Latin is dead' in latin?
3. German
4. Comparative in English
5. Names of planets

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 17

1. Need help in translating this French sentence
2. What is the meaning implied in the name of 2011 British film "Retreat"?
3. Greek etymology entanglements: poppies and death
4. Article

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 18

1. lonely person
2. Collective name for kangaroos
3. Sculpture at the wall of temples

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 19

1. Latin motto or slogan for a radio operator
2. Proverbs 1 V 4 King James
3. Latin pronunciation

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 20

1. Latin translation
2. What appears to be strange English
3. Foperies or ſoperies
4. Open Syllables

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 21

1. translat paragraph
2. Learning a sign language or an oral language - which is easier?
3. Latin translation, please

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 22

1. Han Seung-yeon
2. Gathering Blue
3. Name of Burma in Burmese
4. "dressed better than the street"

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 23

1. Back on "Christian name : Spruille" , & thanks
2. "Arbeiterklasse" vs. "working class"
3. 'Homogeneous' or 'homogenous'?
4. Tsigainer by Itzik Manger
5. “Von ARD bis ZDF”

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 24

1. Sunday függler ?

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 25

1. Grammarians wanted - but only with a poetic sense of humour.
2. Unvoiced initial S in German

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 26

1. Is "welfare" aspirational or non-aspirational in your country?
2. Book of Mormon Conlang
3. “Sonn-”

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 27

1. tiny Chinese characters
2. Connectors in English Grammar (discourse markers?)
3. interpreting German translation

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 28

1. "Equatorial Guinea" in Fang language
2. Semper avarus eget
3. Stimme des Stoßbrigadlers
4. "Study of Indians"

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 29

1. Kyrgyzstan pronunciation
2. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée
3. Adjectival form of "species"
4. Dying a happy death, etc
5. Phonology
6. Language poster
7. Ariel Rebel

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 30

1. lay/laid
2. Sentence from an English test
3. etymology of "come with"
4. Language Log question: (sharks & new yorkers)
5. Rhymes with "maybe"