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etymology - Meaning of go figure and its origin? - English Language . . . Go figure people—Scott Turow {fr Yiddish gey vays, "go know"} Notwithstanding the "contradictory or astonishing" language in Chapman Kipfer's definition of "Go figure," the example from The Nation seems very much in line with Ayto's observation that the expression is often "used to suggest that the conclusion to be drawn about something is
etymology - What is the history of the phrase figure it out . . . As Andrew Leach points out in his answer, there is a broadening in meaning of to figure out from to work out understand via calculation to its more general meaning This is similar to what happened with the verb to reckon centuries earlier The meaning becomes more figurative—wait, no, less "figurative" :-)
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)
Comma before as shown in Figure - English Language Usage Stack Exchange These constraints give rise to [a graph with three edges as shown in Figure 1] which implies that it is the three edges that are shown in Figure 1, rather than the (more usual) meaning that the graph is shown in Figure 1
prefixes - When is the prefix non- used vs un-? - English Language . . . Logically, then, "non-dead" might mean something like "not having died" (true of rocks and living people), and "undead" might mean "living " But word constructions don't always make sense "Non-dead" isn't a word and "undead" means non-living and supernaturally animated Go figure
When writing large numbers, should a comma be inserted? That would lead to a figure of 1 802 617 × 10¹² or 1 802617e+12 for the last figure, which helps in some regards and hurts in others Heck, unless high precision is needed, just say ~1 8 trillion and be done with it See also this question