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Bookmark or Share- "Insecure" or "unsecure" when dealing with security?Insecure means lacking in security. Unsecured means not secured, not fastened, or not guaranteed. *Unsecure is not a word as far as I can tell. In your example the correct usage is insecure, meaning that the security of the system was found to be lacking.
- Is it "John or Mary's house" or "John's or Mary's house"?Even educated native speakers of English feel increasingly insecure when confronting a compound possessive. No matter what authoritative reference works might suggest, there is always a sense that John and Mary's house or John's and Mary's house are clumsy, ambiguous, or simply wrong.
- Is it "Yours faithfully" or "Yours sincerely"?This is called "complimentary close".As reported by Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence: If the letter begins with Dear Sir, Dear Sirs, Dear Madam, or Dear Sir/Madam, the COMPLIMENTARY CLOSE should be "Yours faithfully".
- "Instable" or "unstable"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeFrom 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
- When do I use "I" instead of "me?" - English Language & Usage Stack ...From some comments in the answers for common English usage mistakes (now deleted, 10k only), there's confusion around the usage of I vs. me: While the sentence, "the other attendees are myself and...
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