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Why Do Americans Have Only One Math...
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.....when we have lots of them?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The earliest recorded use of the abbreviated form ‘math’ in America precedes the earliest recorded use of ‘maths’ here in Britain by twenty years, so they beat us to it! Vive la difference, as the French say.
The only other major school subject ending in 's' and sounding like a plural noun is physics. Americans call it 'physics' with the final ‘s’, just as we do.
The only other major school subject ending in 's' and sounding like a plural noun is physics. Americans call it 'physics' with the final ‘s’, just as we do.
Coming into this a bit late, all referendumed out, but in Made In America Bill Bryson talks at length about differences transatlantic and it seems that some are English that we've changed but they've kept eg gotten which annoys many people here. We dropped it yet retained forgotten, begotten.
As far Math(s), I was once told that it is incorrect to pluralise an abbreviation which makes Math correct, not that I've ever used it.
As far Math(s), I was once told that it is incorrect to pluralise an abbreviation which makes Math correct, not that I've ever used it.
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