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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 1

1. Arabic, Chinese, and Greek help: What are the characters in these documents?
2. "to Temp" food
3. Relationship between Pashto and Persian
4. Beating
5. Scrutator

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 2

1. -ton ending
2. Basic grammar for non-native learner
3. Renaming of categories relating to the Hwaseong Fortress at the Wikimedia Commons

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 3

1. what is difference between "would you?" and "will you?"
2. Different Arabs with different varieties tell apart
3. German translation
4. What is the name of this news article in Arabic?
5. 2 shots at 2 targets
6. Anyone read Azerbaijani?
7. Why is Arabic not used in aircraft crash accident reports?

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 4

1. Clusivity in the second person
2. Free, extensively tagged corpora of contemporary English?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 5

1. Flu
2. "introduction to hebrew" "in the roman alphabet"

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 6

1. Pronunciation of the indefinite article 'a'
2. In English, What is the word with the most synonyms?
3. Spanish translation jigger
4. Chinese transliteration
5. Nick needs Polishing
6. Cream of Leek Soup

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 7

1. translation to Venetian please
2. Does anybodies really talks this ways?
3. Elision in Latin
4. Looking for a word that has this meaning...
5. Editors/Censors

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 8

1. Translation from German to English
2. Latin case order anomaly

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 9

1. definition of eCPD
2. Checking grammar
3. Chinese penchant for numbering things

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 10

1. "... not creates it"
2. Rice cake ingredients in Chinese need translation.
3. Learning several languages at the same time
4. Kanji variants

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 11

1. Velar lateral approximant pronunciation

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 12

1. Correct interpretation

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 13

1. the meaning of "rameish"
2. Best German answer
3. Hebrew (?) text
4. Dalmatian resources?
5. Chinese help: True Jesus Church

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 14

1. Phrases from the NYtimes book review "A Feast for the Senses"
2. count vs matter
3. European Esperanto Union

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 15

1. Addendum vocabulary: Annex, Appendix, and Schedule
2. Concise
3. Slavic place names
4. Polish pronunciation for an English-speaker

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 16

1. Black lingerie word
2. What's this girls says?
3. "Mis padres"
4. Väiski in English & Swedish

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 18

1. Is an allegedly terrible historical figure known mainly from later writing a "villain"?
2. What does Maryann chant?

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 19

1. critter words with a certain stress pattern
2. JIM CROW What is the origin of this term, meaning discriminatory laws against African Americans

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 20

1. Fuck
2. Chinese names in book pages - What are the characters?
3. Homologate and prolepsis

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 21

1. Wash the car? Not my remit.
2. More kanji variants
3. neuter sanskrit gender in asana names
4. Odd message received by me
5. Does the verb “to deface” implies a bad faith?
6. What is the Chinese on the sign?
7. Portuguese names
8. Plot device terminology
9. "believe" or "believe in"?
10. Trucker lingo

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 22

1. Five more times => five times more?
2. Is the term "Multichannel video programming distributor" used outside the United States?
3. Offenbach synagogue
4. The definition of the Greek word Metaphon that is no longer in use.

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 23

1. Trying to make an acronym/initialism sentence for SHANGRI
2. English title of a Kant's work
3. Word describing style of speech
4. what is the Chinese name for Vaisakhi?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 24

1. C word v. B word
2. Wass up?
3. "speculated to be"

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 25

1. Question about a word found in the article Hindu milk miracle
2. Billfold or Wallet
3. Chipping/Koping
4. Vulgate

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 26

1. Hollandia
2. Day of the week/date punctuation
3. One English word which describes both "type of solution" and "type of expression"
4. What do Seita and Setsuko say at 5:07 in this video?
5. Semivowels and lax vowels

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 27

1. go one's bond
2. Double diacritic letters

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 28

1. To lay out
2. Insanitary or unsanitary?
3. "Ej", "icke", "inte"
4. Us?

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 29

1. Mini-text standards
2. Doubling Down
3. Greek Spelling

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 30

1. Polish and German speakers needed to check sources an article.
2. Cancer village in China
3. Living out of a car

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 31

1. complex sentence
2. Pronunciation change moving from noun to adjective