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- Particulate vs. particle [closed] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What’s the difference between particulate and particle? Should it be diesel particulates or diesel particles, and why? Could you provide three or more examples where it should use particulate rat
- Origin of the phrase, Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
There are many versions of this proverb, which suggests there are always several ways to do something The earliest printed citation of this proverbial saying that I can find is in a short story by the American humorist Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840: "There are more ways than one to skin a cat," so are there more ways than one of digging for money Charles Kingsley used one old British
- Are names of chemicals not proper nouns? - English Language Usage . . .
Product names which are derived after an inventor's name will often remain capitalized, though not always (e g the petroleum distillate used to power trucks and locomotives is called "diesel" rather than "Diesel" even though it's named after the inventor of the four-stroke compression-ignition engine for which that fuel was formulated)
- Same adjective for two nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The government placed restrictions on both diesel fuel and diesel engines Here I dont want to repeat the diesel I cannot write: The government placed restrictions on both diesel fuel and engines
- Origin of the phrase Now were cooking with
The original is "Now You're Cooking With Gas", supposedly part of an ad campaign from the era when gas stoves first started replacing wood stoves for cooking in the home The Wikitionary entry cooking with gas offers some insight, but I couldn't locate a specific ad campaign, or any other corroborating materials This article suggests that this would have been early in the 1900s
- Difference between accident and coincidence [closed]
In many dictionaries there doesn't seem to be a difference between those two words (if they express that something unexpected happens), but my English teacher told me that coincidence is rather used than accident However, Vin Diesel used it and that's why I was still uncertain, mostly about when to use accident and when coincidence
- formality - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
An alternative wording of the sentence could be We are dealing with a case of a negative externality of consumption, which results in oversupply and greater consumption of diesel than is socially optimal The other sentence is grammatical as it is, but I would agree with Jesper's suggestion to change "revolution in how" to "revolution in the way"
- meaning - Flammable versus Combustible - English Language Usage . . .
Gas is flammable, diesel vapour combustible In England I was always taught that the difference between flammable and inflammable was that inflammable required a flame to permit burning
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