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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 - 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
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)
play, go , do - English Language Usage Stack Exchange go-> ~ing sports extended actions (eg, go swimming, go bungie jumping, go dancing) do -> crafts, martial arts, performances (eg, do ballet, do karate, do crochet, do capoeira**) A person also does piano lessons (because in this context, piano is used as an adjective modifying lessons)
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
Figure 1 and 2 or Figures 1 and 2 - English Language Usage Stack . . . When you call out a table or figure, also tell readers what to look for in that table or figure As shown in Table 1, the demographic characteristics Figure 2 shows the event-related potentials of the results of the testing (see Table 3) of the comparisons (see Figures 4 and 7)