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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 1

1. most run-on letters?
2. Chechen alphabet
3. Etymology of Ælfwaru
4. French phonotactics
5. Healthwashing

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 2

1. Artifacts and artefacts
2. High-pitched speaking voices
3. Correct form
4. Marry merry mary merger
5. One more thing

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 3

1. Correct terminology: eponym

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 4

1. Kimmeridge, geologically
2. figure out the accent of Tommy Wiseau
3. "Douchebag"
4. I'm looking for a word

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 5

1. Japanese and Chinese Stroke Order
2. personal description
3. Looking for a general term for something that accepts a screw

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 6

1. 'Hostage to fortune' idiom
2. Zsa Zsa figure of speech
3. Origin of "Eye of the Tiger".
4. Need help with Dutch song!

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 7

1. "Baby" in German and Dutch
2. Redoubt
3. Russian

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 8

1. English to French translation
2. Grammar question: "Note well" (English of N.B.)
3. squirrel call
4. Premature "is"

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 9

1. wiktionary
2. Thanks for pressing your thumbs??
3. What is a works team in motorsports?
4. Tome
5. Newsletter names: plays on words

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 10

1. Alan Tudyk
2. One child policy related term - Request for new article

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 11

1. Is this sentence grammatically correct?
2. Idiom-Phrases help
3. English, semicolons, I don't know exactly
4. Scandinavian language and Japanese characters
5. "Doubt" - dialect, or changed meaning?
6. Is "myself" an adverb in "I did it myself"?
7. Ordinal notation with superscript and -d

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 12

1. Transcribe this please (simplified Chinese)
2. I don't think this is jealousy, envy, or schadenfreude. Does it have a name?
3. meaning of Gha
4. Sittenfilm
5. Tolerance of zee/zed for z

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 13

1. Pronunciation of “Asperger”
2. Im looking for a word
3. S-Audi Arabia and Slova-Kia
4. Learning Latin Vocabulary
5. Pronunciation of "homage"
6. Hebrew help
7. Cherokee help

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 14

1. Cyrillic to Latin
2. Japanese name for...fashion designer?
3. When the pronoun is the object of one verb and subject of another
4. Human Resources Associate or HR Associate
5. world languages
6. "All but"
7. weird English grammar (or maybe not)
8. "This is she"

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 15

1. need russian speaker
2. Purchase or buy
3. flat earth language
4. strange habit
5. Prefix "un."
6. Ommitted pronouns?

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 16

1. Turns the accusation around
2. Running a car race
3. Word that means goods and services
4. Photon

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 17

1. "eruditional"
2. Japanese honorifics

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 18

1. Swiss Standard German pronunciation
2. Name Days
3. Swiss German (and Swiss French)

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 19

1. Not only... but (also)...
2. Inflection of hyphenated adjectives?
3. Japanese video translation
4. Town in Cyprus

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 20

1. Opposite of exaggerate
2. Dutch name: In' t <-- meaning?
3. Syntax: How can one use a possessive relative pronoun for combining a conditional clause with the main clause?
4. French language
5. Swedish place names containing “fick”
6. Please, let me know if the word HOROLOGY exist?
7. Some Hinglish please
8. Can one learn a language by listening to the radio?

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 21

1. DALF French language exams
2. ノルウェイの森
3. Meaning of medieval logic mnemonic
4. Translation request
5. A Persian poem
6. Beligian or Belgian

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 22

1. How do languages change?
2. Google translate errors - reliable references etc required
3. Latin translation
4. Online Conversations for Language Learning
5. Word meanings
6. The aspirate doesn't have an aspirate.
7. Negative words for male whores
8. Equivalent word for illegible with respect to images
9. Limes
10. The quality of mercy is not strain'd
11. Was Audrey Hepburn a lesbian necrophiliac?
12. "Name numbers" for monarchs?

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 23

1. Are gulls 'gullible'?
2. Th in older German orthography

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 24

1. Latin to English translation from Venus and Adonis
2. Persian question
3. Japanese
4. Origin of "th" sound in English.
5. Southern American accent

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 25

1. Words with two definitions where only one can be pluralized

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 26

1. Pronunciation of Los Angeles
2. reference
3. Odd Phrasing in BBC News Article
4. The word "bread" meaning "money"
5. Japanese translation?
6. Latin Translation

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 27

1. Does Portugal have this problem too?
2. A word that means either a patronym or a matronym?
3. Help translating from German, please
4. British accent
5. XVIII century translation, please
6. Languages of Russia
7. "100 percent" in Spanish

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 28

1. Pre-Germanic English in modern English
2. Cowboy slang...from the movies.
3. Greek and Russian alphabet?
4. The name Tsvetelina

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 29

1. Official test for Russian
2. Macedonian and Bulgarian
3. Did Confucius really say that?
4. Phonetic Alphabet
5. Internet word frequency data
6. "Sentimentality is unearned emotion"/James Joyce

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 30

1. '...earned his ouster'

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 July 31

1. Have cognitive scientists explained why it's tedious to not use pronouns?
2. Greek Etymology: Zeuxippe
3. Chinese bicycle vocabulary and tone confusion
4. japanese to english translation please