Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/September 2015

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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 1

1. Translation from Low German
2. Another Slovenian question

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 2

1. Zero Copula in Slavic Languages
2. Help translating a sentence of Korean
3. Turkic countries and places with "-stan" in their name
4. Up the spout

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 3

1. is there a word that means unpleasant but necessary

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 4

1. Bengali language into different categories
2. "Heavenly Empire" or "Celestial Empire"?
3. Is Arcedeckne of Anglo-Saxon origin?
4. Does "oh no!" mean the same thing in Japanese and English.
5. What is bon-ton?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 5

1. Latin phrases
2. Kalasan: How it is pronounced?

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 6

1. Dilly
2. IPA request
3. Bury–berry merger

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 7

1. Within 90 days of v. after 90 days
2. Religious discrimination

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 8

1. What does this say?

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 9

1. A Hangul pronunciation question: pronouncing the clusters ㄹㅅ, ㄹㅎ and ㄹㅌ in batchim position?
2. Hungarian translation check?
3. Pertinent question
4. ESL editors with garbled English

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 10

1. Pierogi, pyrohy and varenyky in Canadian Oxford Dictionary

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 11

1. That

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 13

1. "Service delivery" in Ugandan Internal Affairs?
2. sunday morning show
3. Body part anagrams

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 14

1. Pre-revival "hippopotamus" in Hebrew
2. mahada yetfalssaf

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 15

1. DMZ - Pronunciation
2. Language and Vision

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 16

1. There is a pleasure in the pathless wood

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 17

1. Get yourself a shrink

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 18

1. "teaching the King's English"
2. Jimmy Savile

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 19

1. Mom and Dad
2. IPA superscripts

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 20

1. Need help to translate to spanish
2. Full Arabic fonts
3. Okurigana
4. Es singen die Damen und Herren in idiomatic english

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 21

1. Name of class for: male, female, young, and group
2. May I correct "it's" etc. in the Reference desk?
3. German question

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 22

1. Early doors
2. What are they saying in this video?
3. Great Vowel Shift

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 23

1. Pre-WW1 German physics paper
2. Nearby neighbor
3. English understanding problem

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 24

1. Are there volunteer editors who edit novels for writers who can't afford professional services?
2. Is this considered epenthesis?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 25

1. Just a little Russian

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 26

1. Arabic paleography
2. Help with French translation
3. Quick Japanese Translation

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 27

1. Meaning
2. Knightly address

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 28

1. "Bed smart"
2. Commented literature
3. "... attributed with a little odd sense of humor".
4. Spelling of parallel

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 29

1. Pre-war German paper - 2
2. What does this word mean?
3. Name-dropping without any names
4. "As" vs. "as if"
5. ÖBB

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 September 30

1. French licensing statement
2. Do Scandinavians have a word for non-Scandinavians?
3. Pre- WW1 German paper 3