Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2007
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September 1
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- Buffalo Stance
- Swiss German Expression?
- consultation on stress on word Chinese
September 2
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- word-to-morpheme ratio
- Help contacting a person whose web site is in Chinese
- "bildungsromane"
- Gemini by Michel Tournier
- ISO 639
- French Numbers
September 3
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September 4
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- Word
- What words do you not capitalize in a header?
- Use of "None"
- Speaking English
- summary, precis..?
- Aclaratory note
- terminology
- french
- Translation (fr --> en) check
September 5
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September 6
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- Need Help With Translation
- When should the hyphen be used, and when should it not be used?
- Help with foreign language links
- Spanish phrase
- words in other languages
- Growth of English acceptability of (Middle) English
- invitation question...
- Spanish "ya"
September 7
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- A fast system to deplagirize text?
- Do native speakers of English understand following type of sentences easily?
- The Communist Party of China and the human soul
- Prepositions Preceding Surnames: A Collective Term and Their Alphabetisation
- It was a dark and stormy night
- Proper adjectives
- What does the English idiom game, set, and match mean?
- Double Dactyls
- Mean of "Macavity"
- I need to know what "apostel" is regarding certification of a birth certificate.
- Schedule conflicts!
September 8
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- A Song that no one knows...
- obo
- German Help
- After research no clear answer: "What's the difference between Professor, Teacher, instructor?"
- Further/farther
- Spanish abuuu ;_;
September 9
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- German manners
- English translation from Japanese
- oi kei
- Neologism?
- How to read Chloe?
- Portuguese
- grammar help
- A document in Slovenian or maybe Croatian
- Alphabets
- Confusion about in- and un-
- Translation of "trem-" in genus name Tremarctos
September 10
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- Sense of Vertigo
- French corpus: verb frequency
- Britney Spears' or Britney Spears's
- Anybody know any Korean?
- Spanish (?) translation
- Please help with semantics
- More help with semantics
- straight As or straight A's?
- European English?
September 11
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September 12
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- Middle Chinese
- Tibetan spelling of "karma"
- english language
- How to pronounce (for use in spoken wiki project) death cap mushroom article
September 13
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- Word meaning "impoverished aristocrat"
- gender names
- Lost letters
- What Word Describes This Idea?
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Time Line
September 14
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September 15
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- a linguistic question
- Harry Potter
- Content/Contented
- RSVP as a verb
- No bones
- Translation
- Glottal stop
- definition and use of historical versus historic
- How do you pronounce "zusammen" and "entgegen"?
September 16
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- New page in Arabic
- Best Word Selection
- Italics
- Mi'kmaq and Acadian French toponymy
- Grammar 2
- If you wish / If you wish so
- Long German word for "jeep"
- Reduplicative slang
September 17
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- Korean translation
- What is the Correct Pronoun to Use Here?
- Need Chinese reference or advice
- Word which rhymes with "fight" and "write"
- Scaglia orazio aci S. Antonio
September 18
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- stabilization of automatic translation
- U.S. counties - what is the difference between established and organized
- Verreisen vs. reisen
- Grammar
- Just now
- Quotation marks
- German exams
September 19
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- When referring to groups...
- Best Word Choice?
- Idiom: Blood on Blood
- The e-word
- Latin translation of "Intrum Justitia"
- whistle down the wind: etymology
September 20
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- Punctuation
- What is the IPA for Joe Sakic ?
- how's your father
- Choose Between Two Words
- Use of into/in to
- i need your answers...
- Japanese Wikipedia
September 21
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- Elementary language Homework
- IPA TTS
- Audio pronunciation
- to sport
- Let yourself be tempted by ...
- Grammar and nationalities
- Why Italian pronounces "pizza" as "pete-zha" not "pee-sha"?
- French translation
September 22
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September 23
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- Latin Word for Quote
- Samples of Middle Norwegian
- Svangaskarð pronunciation
- I am "humbled"
- A question from es.wikipedia regarding the femeninity of boats
September 24
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- origin of English idiomatic phrase
- Spick-and-span (& spick and span; & spick)
- "Ziehen"
- I have an idea you're pulling our leg. - Xn4
- Effect of words in brackets on sentence
- Vampire
- Khmer language
- Diacritics in Slovenian names
- Loss of Gender in English Between Old and Modern English
- Help with name pronunciation, Peter Geach
September 25
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- Help with Latin quotation
- Idioms & Proverbs
- Definition of the word "native"
- Percentage of English words derived from Latin or Romance languages
September 26
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September 27
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- Are there translation sites where Japanese words are in English letter words instead of symbols?
- sentence making
- What is the Proper Term for This?
- language arts
- Dutch to English translation for improvement of Wikipedia article
- what is the phrase "hairs on a bobbin"
- Miquelon; Basque, Spanish, both or neither?
- What does this mean?
- The Scots leid
September 28
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- Shortest sentence
- how do you pronouce charis?
- accent advice please
- Englishman's home
- IPA for Australian name Brabham
- Classical Greek font
- Russian
September 29
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September 30
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