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I don’t understand why people say Maths. Math encompasses every single type of Math. Maths is just wrong.

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Because it’s British English

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That may be, but Math still encompasses all Math so there’s no need to pluralize it.

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19 points

The discipline is “mathematics.” It’s really not unreasonable that in some parts of the world, it got shortened to maths.

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13 points

Mathematics.

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And British English is wrong. Those motherfuckers stick “u” into way too many words.

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Anymore of this disrespect and I’ll stick “u” into an early grave.

/jk

I feel obligated to say English that comes from England is the only real English. You can keep your Americanese.

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I’ll have you find that there’s more Americans and statistically likely to have more “motherfuckers” in america

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And apparently ass is arse

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What is math short for?

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16 points

Mathollomew

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Mathmallow

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Maths stands for

  • Mathematical
  • Anti
  • Telharsic
  • Harfatum
  • Septomin
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It’s a shortened form of mathematics, build a bridge and get over it

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Ok, but the British also shortened television and made it tele. That makes sense because they took part of the word to do it. If you were going to shorten the word mathematics, why wouldn’t it be math, especially when that would follow what you did with television. Why shorten the word and then add the s from the end for no reason?

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Television isn’t a plural word tho? And if they were talking about more than one television I feel like they would absolutely say teles (tellies?), altho not British so 🤷‍♂️

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why wouldn’t it be math, especially when that would follow what you did with television

Because television is singular (a TV set) and Maths is plural, same as Bros. is the abbreviation of brothers. i.e. when abbreviating a plural you keep the “s”.

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I don’t understand why people say Maths

Because it’s plural.

every single type of Math

In other words, every branch of Mathematics.

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