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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)
etymology - Origin of the idiom go south - English Language Usage . . . Higher; esp in north of (a figure, cost, etc ): higher than, in excess of Though north and south have related meanings (higher and lower, respectively), they are used in different ways North is usually used in respect to a give figure or amount
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! –
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
Origin and meaning of from out of left field The difficulty is compounded by the fact that most baseball teams put their fastest sure-handed starting outfielder in center field (because he has the largest amount of ground to cover), and their strongest-armed outfielder in right field (because it is extremely important strategically to limit the number of base runners who successfully go