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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)
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
Origin of “give a damn about” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I, and many other native speakers, would instead use the more semantically consistent I couldn't give a damn, but more and more people are using the positive could give version to convey the opposite meaning to what the phrase is actually saying Go figure
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I haven't been able to figure out the reason behind the usage, though Is it arbitrary? Is it a random usage made popular by others, like videos that go viral on social networks? PS: Incidentally, the use of "jerk" to mean a fool also originates from the same text
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
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
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!
play, go , do : sports - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I am having some issues with using the right verb (go, play, do) with the following activities: to do boxing or to go boxing; to do archery; to do high jump; to do javelin; to do or to go bungee
Difference between On your mark, get set, go and Ready, steady, go 11 I've always understood ready, steady (or set) go to be a more generic form of on your mark, get set, go, and I'd be inclined to use it in more relaxed situations perhaps The latter feels more specifically like a race
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