y = f (x) which is a mapping of y values against a range of x values related thro the function f (x). OTOH, when mathematically necessary, we would also plot x against y, x = f (y) The convention is that x would occupy the horizontal axis, while y occupies the vertical axis, regardless if x is plotted against y, or y against x.

2013年6月28日 · y'all [you all] /jɔːl/ you all: The longer vowel is on the latter word: a (ll), so the contraction retains it and drops the shorter vowel sound (y) ou – y'all.

2010年9月17日 · The "-y" is a suffix for forming diminutive nouns, and Wiktionary has an entry dedicated to it, though it doesn't say anything about etymology other than "from Middle English and Scots". Thankfully, The Free Library provides lots of further insight, but the bottom line is that nobody really knows for sure, and "the etymology of the diminutive suffix -y, -ie [will] most certainly remain ...

Sentences constructed with a word written in the singular and parenthetically in the plural are straightforward when that word does not end in -y, e.g.: List all applicable employee(s). How doe...

2012年3月10日 · O.K. was probably the first spelling (and there are dozens of theories about its origin). OK is an obvious shortening, maybe by somebody who had only heard the phrase. But ok would be something different, perhaps a small okapi. That's what your spellchecker thought wasn't okay. Edit: O.K. is pronounced 'okay', and so is OK. But ok would be pronounced 'ock'.

2010年9月17日 · It is my understanding that the contraction y’all was considered correct American English in times past. At what point was this word removed from valid American English?

2012年1月31日 · According to Wikipedia the three axes are called the abscissa, ordinate and applicate, referring to x, y and z respectively. So although applicate doesn't translate directly to the word you're looking for, this would be an appropriate notation to distinguish your axes.

2014年12月6日 · I don't think there is anything about pronunciation or spelling that should tell you whether a word is more likely to contain a "y" or an "i" in an intermediate position. About the only thing you have to work with is the word origin. Words derived from Greek are much more likely to have "y" in their spelling than are words of Latin origin, basically as a substitute for where the Greeks used ϒ ...

2013年2月1日 · There is a joke poking fun at non-prestige dialects to the effect of "Remember, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural." There is actually a bit of truth to that for the heaviest examples of the dialect. In typical usage, I believe, "y'all" is used as both a singular and plural pronoun--nicely mirroring "you" in the standard dialect.

2021年9月6日 · When? When speaking English. The process is called palatalization and it produces a /tʃ/ from a /t/ when preceding an /i/ or /y/ at normal speech rates. This applies to the sounds of English, not the spellings. Body is pronounced /'badi/, with a stressed vowel, not a /y/.