In <d8pep0$bfm$1@panix2.panix.com>, on 06/15/2005 at 10:42 AM, lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) said:
>My diagnosis is that Robin, having seen what fun some people have by >pigheaded trolling, but being unwilling to indulge himself in the >mathematical version thereof, has found a hobbyhorse--or hobbypig--of >his own, and will ride it to death as long as anyone replies to him, >if not longer.
More to the point, both "math" and "maths" are slang; to condemn one as nonstandard and endorse the other as standard is either disingenuous or uninformed. However, as a compromise may I suggest that we call "standard English" the language spoken in Australia?
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