Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/June 2017

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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 1

  1. "too" vs "so"
  2. Why does /ð/ not appear at the start of content words in English?
  3. Parliament Hill
  4. Do native Chinese speakers, studying English, have difficulty in phonetically distinguishing between sieging and searing ?
  5. Offhand

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 2

  1. Penalty called "manner something"
  2. Un - Turkish?
  3. .apk

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 3

  1. Simple present tense for constant actions?
  2. Arabic chemistry and physics

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 4

  1. Bantu noun classes
  2. ܬܪܓܨܝ ܫܘܒܝܝܐ
  3. Is the following clumsy sentence grammatically correct?
  4. If in the UK the Indian and Pakistanis are Asian

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 5

  1. Greek "agou"
  2. Use of Latin and written Chinese in various societies
  3. The word for "Christian"
  4. Phonemic ae-tensing; can (container) versus can (modal verb)
  5. How to quote this incomplete sentence?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 6

  1. Translation of 18th-century Hell Scroll inscription
  2. Use of gerunds and possessives
  3. "reduce" antonyms
  4. Need help with grammar terminology
  5. Surname Y'Blood
  6. "etwas eiskalt / knallhart durchziehen"

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 7

  1. Is there a context in which "check out" cannot be replaced by "check" without necessarily changing the meaning?
  2. Traditional methods
  3. When did the meaning of corn shift to maize in American English?
  4. "He appears to be lying" - Is the infinitive phrase functioning as an adjective or adverb?

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 8

  1. duhui in taiwanese mandarin

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 10

  1. Multi-language or intermediate puns
  2. Both side of a body, of a human being
  3. Hempl's theory on Z

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 11

  1. Tagalog translation please
  2. Animal terms that mean insults
  3. bačičobi

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 12

  1. antonyms of "return"
  2. "If you do he will do", VS. "If you will do he will do"

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 13

  1. Persian pronunciation question
  2. Japanese cat
  3. German Adverbial Conectors/Prepositions
  4. Woe is me

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 14

  1. ringworm

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 15

  1. Are the words Muspell, Muspiell, Musburg, and Musbury related?
  2. Which vs. that

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 16

  1. antonyms
  2. Louis Pierre Vossion
  3. "centralized" antonym
  4. Pronunciation of "eighth"

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 18

  1. "pendejera" (Venezuelan slang?)
  2. German translation of a Kennedy quote

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 19

  1. Job descriptions
  2. Translation from Arabic - 'sabih'
  3. Danish or Norwegian?
  4. what's the rule?
  5. How to pronounce the word "Jesuism"

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 20

  1. "Spare oneself sth"

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 21

  1. Translation from German needed
  2. German–American-English online dictionary?

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 22

  1. V NP = V P NP
  2. Gilding the lily
  3. Turning stops into fricatives

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 23

  1. "sports fielded"?

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 24

  1. Equivalent for German adverbial ordinal numbers
  2. A Navy report...
  3. antonym of "cogent"
  4. Why is the name form kept while the meaning is not translated?

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 26

  1. Dinner set or something

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 27

  1. Spanish "veredero"

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 28

  1. Plurals of -ooth words

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 29

  1. English ths
  2. Sea-locked
  3. Latin: anima and mens

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017 June 30

  1. Semantic relation
  2. Little Englanders
  3. Farsi or Persian
  4. Piece of work
  5. ' and " for non-quotes
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