Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2016

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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 1

1. Former 86-year-old

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 4

1. the meaning of 'surrogate'

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 5

1. Definition of "hollow victory"?
2. ou in southern
3. Headless chickens and pork chops

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 6

1. In the past was there a phenomenon of replacement of the consonants sh/l in Hebrew and Accadian?
2. Which school system is better: the Dutch, American or British one?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 7

1. Term for "pompadour" used in the 1950's
2. Finding a word

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 8

1. The bank was robbed by one Joe Schmoe
2. Reading Japanese, but pronouncing kanji as hanzi

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 9

1. Transcription of a french song
2. writer/rider

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 10

1. Technical vocabulary of various languages

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 13

1. Is statement correct ?

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 14

1. Translation of Latin quotation

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 17

1. English cognate of dies (Latin word)
2. Poem meaning
3. pautaje
4. Software for accent reduction

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 18

1. What is "to rune it"?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 19

1. How does an American communicate with a British person on British soil?

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 20

1. Pronunciation of "Santa"
2. Spanish or Portuguese in article Tocache

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 21

1. French putain
2. Tsim Sha Tsui
3. Gregg shorthand Hebrew

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 22

1. Phonetically transcribed insults/nonsense in Hindi with which to vex telemarketers?
2. Rogereeny?
3. Help with inscription

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 26

1. Latin Title
2. Which language easy or hard to learn base on first language
3. "floating point data types" or "floating-point data types"?

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 29

1. Chanukah? Challah?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 30

1. Possessives in names of workplaces
2. What accent do Bob's Burgers characters use?
3. Words that are technically one language but that we anglophones pronounce as if they were another language