Instable or unstable? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange From my experience, it seems that although unstable is more commonly used, instable is often preferred in engineering and scientific contexts, e g "aircraft instability", "instable algorithm" Are
Whats a good word to describe someone who is prone to sudden changes . . . I suggest volatile likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, especially by getting worse or capricious showing sudden changes in attitude or behaviour changing suddenly and quickly or erratic moving or behaving in a way that is not regular, certain, or expected She was a volatile capricious erratic woman, a woman who was prone to quick outbursts and fiery changes of mood
Insecure or unsecure when dealing with security? Nouns in "-ity" don't always take the same negative prefix as the corresponding adjective For example, "instability" is greatly preferred over "unstability", but "unstable" is greatly preferred over "instable"
What do you call a person who keeps on going despite setbacks? (in one . . . The word 'strever' (the equivalent of 'striver' in dutch) has a distinct negative connotation It's a person who tries really hard in terms of having good grades as a compensation for lack of social skills That's actually not a bad thing imo but it's used by people (usually teens) who try to lower the social status of socially inept people because they don't behave as they wish they'd do
phrases - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The normal ways to offset a parenthetical are with commas, dashes, brackets or zero punctuation Commas and dashes occur at the end s of the parenthetical, and are paired for medial parentheticals, while terminal initial punctuation replaces one for terminal initial parentheticals Semicolons are most unusual, many would say unacceptable
Are both gasoline and mains gas called gas in the USA? To clarify, you are interested in domestic terms that an ordinary person might use about their domestic supply (specifically methane natural gas piped to houses, rather than propane etc sold in tanks) and what they buy at a filling station? Rather than terms in the energy industry (when "oil and gas" or "petroleum and (natural) gas") are often used
What is the correct punctuation after as follows? Semicolons to separate the chapters, as proposed in another answer, is certainly a valid approach However, I'd like to answer from a different angle - one that comes from my experience with lists in technical writing, where they are very common First of all, the right punctuation after "as follows" is a colon There's no way around that "Follows" or "following" is the indicator You could