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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 1

  1. Gaba, the company
  2. Any Kurdish speakers here?
  3. Japanese
  4. Lokavibhaga
  5. Ctrl+F
  6. Aggressive Roller Skating
  7. Lingua franca of 10th century Al-Andalus?

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 2

  1. Native American accent
  2. French Translation
  3. Cursing
  4. What's the word for this identification scheme?
  5. "S" sound between S and SH used by some English speakers

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 3

  1. Pluralization
  2. Russian Runes
  3. how offensive is the word "Paki" in UK compared to "nigger" in USA?
  4. "how to use ..." in Chinese
  5. Wikipedias
  6. Between a rock and a hard place
  7. Hitler ranting about Wikipedia?
  8. The Indian equivalent of the Phillipine kalahig
  9. Polish song lyric
  10. Pronunciation of "Kiehl's"
  11. Foul
  12. Translate
  13. Hollyburn
  14. The god of death looks fierce and dark like a heap of eyewash?
  15. First Word

March 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 4

  1. Italian speaker needed to help find book
  2. borrowed words
  3. Sinhalese
  4. Ken Loach's films
  5. American language in the 1930s
  6. Premiere/premier
  7. Ellipt.

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 5

  1. The land of our ancestors
  2. hors-cadre
  3. Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
  4. Universal Words
  5. Verb
  6. Abbrevation

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 6

  1. Abbreviation (2)
  2. What
  3. Most words
  4. Know all men by these presents
  5. Dangling modifier: ambiguous?
  6. Logo

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 7

  1. I Hear
  2. Nuclear dummy?
  3. Changing Language
  4. "Va', pensiero" or "Va, pensiero"?
  5. Moroccan Arabic lyrics
  6. Altnordisch/Altisländisch
  7. vt?
  8. Procuratorates

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 8

  1. ISO Code For The Manchu Alphabet
  2. Copy vs. Over vs. Wilco
  3. Ah- kuk kuk kuk-kuk kuk-kuk.
  4. Pirates Who Smoke?
  5. Schutzstaffel
  6. Differences between I like singing AND I like to sing ?
  7. Diazecloxmelofluroclizfpidizvralcoxibivir-CR and other pharmaco-nominative monstrosities
  8. Sussex, Essex, Wessex, etc
  9. In order
  10. Decorative Typographical Symbol

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 9

  1. Reforms of Russian orthography
  2. sbd.
  3. Uhry/Uhersho vs. Maďarsko
  4. Gulch of Terror
  5. Difference Between Aggressive Skates And Inline Skates
  6. fixed
  7. Cotton
  8. C20th.
  9. Linguistics - Th Sound -> F Sound
  10. Harry Potter-ish thing translated to Latin
  11. Phrase in German
  12. Japanese question
  13. I need some help with Hebrew please
  14. Death's head - what?

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 10

  1. Online Dictionary
  2. Congo
  3. Four different pen names

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 11

  1. Catholic and Katholic
  2. What was the meaning of the word "amend" when the US Constitution was written
  3. Pronunciation of Allegheny
  4. Nightmare!
  5. What's a wittle?
  6. Slavic equals slave?

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 12

  1. Hung or hanged?
  2. Can't be arsed
  3. Translate poster
  4. Greek letter that looks like an "L"?
  5. "Leave on the computer"-- ungrammatical or just odd?

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 13

  1. is it possible to give most male readers an erection with 20 English words?
  2. A word that denotes the concept of incorrectly claiming (illegal) discrimination
  3. Comparative in English
  4. Italianate
  5. PIGS

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 14

  1. r̝̊
  2. what are the synonyms for "encasement"?
  3. Wnd
  4. "KN RBL YMB" in summary
  5. Not?
  6. Tamil அராலி (Araly?) and Tamil யாழ்ப்பாண நகரம் (Jaffna)
  7. One of the only

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 15

  1. "Xynthia" (origin and meaning)
  2. Book recommendations
  3. IIe
  4. Polish: monity
  5. Caption, editorial cartoon from Nazi-occupied Serbia
  6. practice vs work
  7. Sapir-Whorf and Orwell
  8. Foreign language names of school districts

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 16

  1. “T kofschip”-rule (Dutch grammar)
  2. Period and quotes
  3. Russian Cyrillic
  4. can you be very good at reading and writing a language
  5. What the hell?!?!
  6. "Te voy a llevar a un pinche vaile!"
  7. Living in Grand Central Station
  8. What Wikipedia projects have well-established standards for language-specific transliteration?

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 17

  1. Mortar
  2. Grandad
  3. Defining a term/phrase
  4. French pronunciation
  5. Gaelic language
  6. Autist
  7. Ruthenian

March 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 18

  1. Cross-Purposes
  2. acb
  3. Charles The Fat
  4. Etymology
  5. "dirty laundry"
  6. 2 queries
  7. 的， 地， and 得

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 19

  1. Did or do
  2. 'Recruitment'
  3. Storensay
  4. Kiss And Tell
  5. Words "than" and "then"
  6. Latin or Italian names??
  7. Curru
  8. Prussiate

March 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 20

  1. Decimal numbers in French
  2. "Hello, who is it?"
  3. How do you pronounce Zdzislaw Beksinski?
  4. Dash versus semi-colon
  5. Crazy transliterations at Contraction_(grammar)#Chinese

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 21

  1. &c.
  2. Resources for listening to Chinese
  3. What's the word for...

March 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 22

  1. Name suffixes
  2. Vowels in English, French, and German
  3. Sacred Seventeen
  4. Kataab Ashbal Al Islam Al Salafi
  5. Latin to English translation

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 23

  1. Etymology of "broke"
  2. Forcefully, forcibly
  3. Lies
  4. Bengali, What does "Da" after a name signify
  5. Holla?
  6. Arabic/asian(?) symbol on back of $10 bill USD

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 24

  1. footnotes and punctuation
  2. Is sometime redundant here?
  3. Vowel trapezium and the Bark scale
  4. economically and financially active
  5. Delight, opposite of de-light
  6. Etymology of shar, tsar etc.

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 25

  1. what is this study called ?
  2. Was I on an "internship" or a "placement"?
  3. "Be Prepared" in Latin
  4. Is "If I would be rich I would buy a car." correct  ?

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 26

  1. Accent question
  2. Spanish translation question
  3. United States Census 2010 slogan
  4. Statements which mean their opposite
  5. бакалжан
  6. Japanese characters

March 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 27

  1. April fools help required.
  2. Reading a poem in New Yorker
  3. Letter
  4. Derivation of term

March 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 28

  1. Does anyone know the meaning of ....
  2. Russian newspaper published in the UK
  3. Robespierre (Or the "Incorruptable")
  4. Swedish island toponyms
  5. Word for being taken in by your own phony image
  6. Rold?
  7. Japanese Onomatopœia
  8. Opposite of Empowerment
  9. Calling your dog by your kid's name

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 29

  1. Could you please remind me...
  2. English word for (normal) pigment spots on skin
  3. Angry FAce
  4. Films 'shot on location in'...
  5. Texts in German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese with mouse-over pop-ups featuring translation or grammatical information
  6. Passivization
  7. Illustrious 14 Romans
  8. Order of words in English sentences

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 30

  1. Goal, aim
  2. Coteries
  3. Definition
  4. Must and can

March 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010 March 31

  1. British English?
  2. Translation from Guadeloupe Creole to English
  3. French
  4. Usage of definite article with noun
  5. Column-row order
  6. Fissioning / Fissionable linguistically correct?
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