What is the difference between "vague","unclear" & "ambiguous" ? both are have same meaning so when it should be use?

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There's a word I'm trying to recall, it means something such as "extra pieces of fabric hanging from clothing." I believe it ends with -gibles or -gables, and perhaps it starts with im- or ex-, and it's a noun. I've spent the last hour trying to figure it out.

Dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Should individual letters of the Latin alphabet be italicized in the above example? EDIT (AFTER Neil Coffey's ANSWER): According to "The Chicago Manual of Style" (7.59) we should prefer the latter.

Since Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking Glass says When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. I guess you could call them that, although it doesn't exactly cover everything you ask for.

Good afternoon all, I was wondering when we use the word "english", is it normal to always use it with the capital letter? For example, which sentence below looks more right? : There's a total of 500 english words and 500 chinese words in this essay. There's a total of 500 English wor...

Since English means "of or belonging to England" (which is where the language originated), and Chinese means the same with respect to China, and since both England and China are proper nouns which are always capitalized, I'd say, yes, it is normal to use capital letters for those words. Most read...