Generate the answer for a given question. The question requires common knowledge of English. Make sure that the answer is in detail, long, consistent with the context, and requires general knowledge of English. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question. Give a proper explanation to answer, and if necessary, provide the definition of various terms. And conclude your answer if it's long. If you have used other resources (e.g., Merriam Webster's.) to answer the question, include citations in your answer. You don't need to paraphrase the context of your resources, but make sure that your answer is consistent and complete.

Input: Consider Input: I came upon this letter when reading a book, I couldn't find its name on the internet, you can imagine how hard it is to search about it. What is the name of the letter that follows 'sample space'? I know it's not really an English question, but I think this site is best fit for the question than say, the mathematics site.

Output: It's an S written in a fraktur font used by mathematicians. This one is easy to find out using Detexify.


Input: Consider Input: What's the difference between 'successive' and 'consecutive'?.

Output: First note that successive appears as a synonym of consecutive in dictionaries. (see Merriam Webster's entry here). Now compare these examples that I chose at random and extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): Consecutive 'his unprecedented string of consecutive appearances' 'has own the best actor Emmy two consecutive times' 'named person of the year for the second consecutive time' 'account balance remains overdrawn for seven consecutive days' 'the Irish made six consecutive NCAA Tournaments' Successive 'on successive laps, Chris passed three cars' 'analysts say that successive governments failed to' 'dramatic walk-off style in successive victories against the Seattle Mariners' 'simultaneous and successive cognitive processes' 'who have challenged successive military governments' Here is what I observe in the examples (I hope I was lucky in my random choice of them): In the examples that use consecutive, the fact that the events happened in a row without interruption seems to be something that the author wanted to emphasize. However, in the examples that use successive, the fact that the events occur after each other with no interruption seems to play a secondary role. Notice that you can remove successive from some of these sentences and the meaning is not affected too much. If you remove consecutive, the impact is in general higher.


Input: Consider Input: I have recently heard in a Tv show that some guy said: He is stable-ish for now! What does this term mean exactly? couldn't find anything, what's the occasion to use? can we use the -ish suffix for any adjective?.


Output: -ish 1) A suffix that makes any word or phrase more vague. 2) It can be used with any word and it's applied at the end to make the word into meaning 'kind of'. For eg. me = 'how are you feeling today?' you = 'i am feeling okay-ish' More 3) A suffix used to guesstimate a number or time. When referring to time '-ish' means within plus or minus 15 minutes. When referring to a number '-ish' means within 5. For eg. Guy1: What time is the party? Guy2: 7:30-ish Other definition: 4) suffix. used to describe an approximation, or likeness of the subject. (can be used alone as an adjective) So, here the meaning of the stable-ish to he is okay-okay or not good not bad.. Update reference by the request of @trevorD The term = ish