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etymology - Meaning of go figure and its origin? - English Language . . . Go figure expresses amazement or disbelief EDIT: figure in these senses would be similar to calculate or come to a sensible conclusion So it figures would suggest that a situation is reasonably expected And go figure would suggest (rhetorically) that the audience should seek to find sense in the situation (and probably won't find it)
word choice - Congratulation vs. congratulations - English Language . . . Congratulations is simply the plural form of congratulation See these examples from the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Let me offer you my congratulations for being elected Please send her my congratulations I sent her a letter of congratulations The plural form illustrated by the examples above is much more used than the singular form: 2523 matches for congratulations vs 56 matches for
What might go no mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The similarity with Go figure is useful: that means "Can you work it out?" or "Who would ever have worked that out?" or something similar In the film, know is substituted for figure, with a similar construction intended Wikipedia mentions go know in its page of Yiddish expressions: geh vays: literally "go know", as in "go figure"
etymology - What is the history of the phrase figure it out . . . I can't be positive about it, but I believe I did figure it out That usage refers to calculation, because the next question is "Was your estimate higher or lower than £55000?" The verb appears to be similar to "put it out" — the result drops out of a calculation involving the manipulation of figures
Period usage in Figures and Table captions [closed] The usage I'm most familiar with is "Fig 1: a figure" or "Figure 1: a figure" with a colon introducing the caption proper Note the full stop period used when "Figure" is abbreviated This is the output produced by many journal templates I've used (their LaTeX templates, which take care of the figure numbering style automatically) Figure captions are a little odd in that they're not usually
To what extent should figure legends within scientific literature . . . How far should figure legends go in describing the trends within the figure (within a biology paper)? I've seen some conflicting information on this and I'm unsure if legends need to fully describe trends in the figure, only give a partial description, or leave the reader to observe the trend themselves
tenses - What exactly is being parodied here? - English Language . . . Goodness gracious! Don't apologize for the length of the quote It's about time someone asked about a passage on here and provided sufficient context in the question, rather than some measly fragment that gets people scrambling to find the rest of it
Use of be or are - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @Lawrence, the rephrasing sounds a bit Yoda to me, but I'm not a native speaker I wonder if there's a general or quasi-general rule saying when one should use "are" or "be" Both sound so well to me! I originally used "are", but then an inner voice told me "be" was the correct tense Go figure Thanks!