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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 1

1. "Without it"
2. fine vs. finely
3. Sew trousers

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 2

1. Vowel reduction in Russian and Ukrainian

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 3

1. Ibidem

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 4

1. Throw the curve (clothe the curve)
2. Cartoon

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 5

1. Pronunciation of Camberwell
2. "Churro" used as an adjective in European Spanish

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 6

1. Dutch spellings of place names
2. Meaning of the sentence
3. The name for this phrasing structure
4. "One of the best films of this or any year"
5. "dark L"

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 7

1. Glottal stop
2. Term for political issue
3. Youthful cheering on sports teams
4. Stress in Greek names
5. Horse and cart/wagon/buggy/carriage/whathaveyou
6. Finding place name rhymes
7. Speaking of rhyme
8. W and V as English-language vowels
9. Poetry and/or songs in sign languages
10. Why is Rocio a girl (in Spanish)

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 8

1. Assistance of/from
2. Troodeloo (?) in Rebecca (1940 film)
3. Clarification needed about an African Language
4. "Making out"

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 9

1. Using the word "Mississippi" as a device for measuring time
2. Describing facial expression

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 10

1. Plural of Golem in Hebrew

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 11

1. Chinese names of fictional characters
2. Translation of Spanish with misspellings/nonstandard forms
3. Mooki Ana Low-Hey song translation
4. Cyrillic Polish

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 12

1. "Bomb girls" or "Shell girls?"
2. The Japanese word "youmu"
3. English grammar question (deverbal nouns)
4. Phrase search

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 13

1. Italian reader needed
2. Guitar term

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 14

1. Strange Japanese Sign: What is the original intent?
2. Pronunciation of Darius
3. What is easy for Mandarin Speakers to learn?
4. 3rd person or 1st person

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 15

1. Latin word order
2. What is the etymology of the biscuit "Ginger Nut"?
3. Hiberno-English

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 16

1. Dashes
2. English Translation please
3. Who comes up with chemical names?
4. What's the name for...

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 17

1. Length of texts
2. Words in French from a song
3. Glottal stop
4. What MLA format?
5. Sidewalk Shed
6. La jeunesse

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 18

1. Russian fluency

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 19

1. Businessman that only speaks Scots
2. How to express "8th day of the week" and "13rd month of the year" in English?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 20

1. Pronunciation of mum
2. Avunculicide
3. Russian translation
4. Loss of "vosotros" in Latin America

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 21

1. Yet another question about French
2. Mysterious script
3. You and You

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 22

1. Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
2. Are the following sentences "good"?
3. US Usage of Prepositions (Revisited)
4. Origin: Bishop (surname)
5. Search Wikipedia in English

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 23

1. Indian name subsequent uses
2. Translations and Licenses
3. Last night...
4. Literacy in English

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 24

1. Ada pronunciation
2. Can a country be a cultural center?
3. Chinese translation requested
4. An English word
5. bürgerschaftlicher - meaning?
6. Using a word as a word itself
7. Government Booklet

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 25

1. Chinese help: Getting names of Chinese authors and novel titles
2. Bulembu word origin
3. Word matching
4. after & behind in rankings
5. Ultimate
6. Offline equivalent of an online troll?

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 26

1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. translation chinese-english
3. Simple. English to Russian
4. Difference between football tournament & international football
5. Drop me a line
6. Using Words on TV (Traitor)
7. The original Magna Carta

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 27

1. All hail?
2. Not quite a comma splice
3. The Queen is dead; long live the Queen!

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 28

1. Patterns of speech in the 19th century
2. -го in Common Slavic
3. What is the meaning of BIOTA?
4. It was agreed that we should fix English grammar
5. Other/Another

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 29

1. name for a second language skill evaulation
2. Lax vowels in unchecked syllables
3. ʊ→ʌ in dialects
4. Pronunciation: bechamel
5. Speaking of ch
6. Standard and regional dialect words

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 30

1. Grammatical?
2. Pronunciation of Gia
3. Chinese help: Niehai Hua characters
4. Eejit
5. Spanish ch
6. How to write out "two hundred and twenty-five millionth" in Greek?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2013 October 31

1. Yeah, no, absolutely.
2. Who vs. Whom
3. what is the opposite of 'good governance' (catchier than, 'bad governance')
4. Chinese help: Further reading for Sai Jinhua