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June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 3

1. Grammar help needed
2. Words created by author?

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 5

1. Grammar, spelling, syntax etc.
2. silent final "e" only in English and French?
3. Russian & Latin names

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 6

1. Word or expression that originally meant literally what it said but no longer means literally what it says, but is still in use
2. So many/much xyz, so little time !
3. Please translate the following
4. Japanese romanization
5. Price with 3 letter currency

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 7

1. Commander of ancient ships that aren't triremes
2. Now then, Lord Arthur, who dragged whom around the walls of what?
3. Latin case marking and subject/object ambiguity
4. Italian phonotactics
5. Oil-oc continuum?

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 8

1. Address
2. Circa

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 9

1. French vowels
2. "an ethnic group which ..."?
3. The creator of the D'ni language

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 10

1. The Bucket Lady's Dishy Vicar's Wife's Accent?
2. Free Software suitable for making subsets from a wordlist?
3. Japanese
4. Gentile lettore, gentile lettrice,

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 11

1. Marathi to English
2. Question about new French spelling

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 12

1. "British Rail is poised on the edge of a precipice."
2. Is the Hymn to Liberty in Dimotiki or Katharevousa?

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 14

1. The last word in ultraverbalism

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 15

1. liberty, liberté, libertad, libertà
2. Word
3. Possesion with apostrophies.
4. Hindi
5. A Language Biased Toward Itself

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 16

1. Why do kanji have several readings?
2. Agent noun

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 18

1. Another neologism please?
2. word said in French
3. male scent
4. Languages of Luxembourg
5. Chhandas(Poetic metres) in hindi
6. Ainu names

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 19

1. Use of Roman numerals in Japan
2. Old Greek Ablative

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 20

1. When did we stop putting full stops in initialisms?
2. Shifting accents in Spanish? (hidalguía)
3. deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning and ???
4. very strange complete misspelling

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 21

1. Faroese lyric translation?
2. "The court requested the two sides to attempt to settle the matter."
3. Name of Guinea-Bissau

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 22

1. “I have refused 12 girls, 9 has refused me” In this phrase shouldn’t we use “9 have refused me”?
2. Moon mentioned by Iran space agency page in Persian
3. Quick question about peacock terms
4. Shortest Words
5. Yiddish

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 23

1. Is 'denigrate' a racist word?
2. Names of Honduras

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 24

1. English word for a trip...

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 25

1. Franconian dialect of bavarian german
2. The psychic sidekick
3. Translation and Meaning of Beija

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 26

1. Debby
2. George Bouhe
3. Chinese - Super Hercules
4. side tracked

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 27

1. Chinese posthumous names
2. triple crown in volleyball
3. Name of this Italian sculptor's piece
4. Catch-22s?

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 28

1. Homework help! Please help me write without close paraphrasing.
2. Furigana in newspapers (Japanese)
3. Danish
4. Junk Dealer
5. Arabic translation "to witness"

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 29

1. 'Backwards' compound words
2. Male/female language
3. defense line
4. "Mir ist heiß"
5. I'm looking for a word...

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 June 30

1. UV ?