2016年4月13日 · I was wondering about the origin of using the terms "number one" and "number two" for going to the bathroom (for those unaware, number one is urinating, number two is defecating, at least in the US...

2012年7月11日 · How do you say the mathematical function in English: x^y (or x y) For example, how do you say 2^16 (or 2 16) I know ^ means 'power' or 'exponentiate', but that is the name of the operation, not how you pronounce its use. If y = 2, it is 'x squared', y=3 then 'x cubed'. What if y is some other arbitrary number?

Wherever the "Section 2" is located, the author most likely has actually given it the title "Section 2", so that is the name of a specific section of your paper. However, "page 2" is a page with the name "2" (not the name "Page 2", unless you wrote "Page #" in the corner of every page). This, I believe, is the logic for writing "page 2" in ...

2014年6月1日 · The abbreviations nos. and figs. are the correct plural forms, and are preferred. The Chicago Manual of Style states the following rule: For most abbreviations, add s or es for plural forms, unless otherwise stated. Nevertheless, most scholarly Latin abbreviations have irregular plurals usually formed by doubling a letter, such as pp. as plural of p. (page) and qq.v. as plural of q.v. (quod ...

2011年8月17日 · I'm searching for a proverb or expression that describes a situation which has two choices or two ways out (that is, somewhat of a forced choice) where both lead to some kind of trouble (but not th...

2017年10月31日 · There were two ways of writing the letter A, as seen in figure 1 and figure 2. I'm a non-native English speaker and I was explicitly taught to write figure 2 by my Irish teacher. However, on comput...

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2017年8月9日 · I’m aware that ‘this’ is used for a singular thing while ‘these’ is used for plural. However, I also see people who use the phrase ‘this two’ so I’m not sure which one’s correct.

2021年8月18日 · When should I use “work day” and when should I use “workday”? Is this a matter of style or are there certain grammatical cues that dictate one versus the other? I see the Google Books Ngram Viewer ...

2011年10月13日 · How do we say km2 in words? Do we use km exponent by two, square kilometer, kilometer squared or something else?