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Old 03-05-2003, 06:59 PM
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When you want to shorten the word mathematics, do you say math or maths?
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Old 03-05-2003, 07:14 PM
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When you want to shorten the word mathematics, do you say math or maths?
Always wondering that. All our english teachers say maths, then I was talking to an American and he asked why I don't say math
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It was always maths when I was at school.
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maths

it's what I've learned at school & even my Dutch - English dictionary tells me so :P
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exactly look it up in an English dictionary instead of an American-English dictionary...
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MATH, here.
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Lol

This is one of my pet hates.

Abreviation of Mathematics has to equal maths. There is more than one sum + Math just sounds bad.



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