Robin Chapman <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> Victor Eijkhout wrote: > >> Robin Chapman <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Why change the subject anyway, which was about non-americans using >>> americanisms instead of writing in standard English. >> >> To someone whose native language is not any variant of English, standard >> is what they encounter first or most often. For me, as probably for Han, >> that implied calling our discipline "math". > > You mean like him, you cannot spell "mathematics" either :-(
There is nothing about the spelling of "mathematics" that dictates its shortened form is "maths".
Why *ought* the shortened form keep the "s"?
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