From: Loyd <Loydlin@aol.com>
To: Teacher2Teacher Public Discussion
Date: 2001082908:47:08
Subject: Re: How to spell Trigonometry

Most of the people who posted here spelled the word as "trignometry. 
Being a poor speller myself, I looked it up and found that it is
spelled "trigonometry."

Regarding the use of the word "math" or "maths"  I have always used
"math" when I was to lazy to spell it out.  In some countries, they
apparently use "maths"  as  a short form for mathematics. 

I plugged in math and maths into Microsoft Word which has a spell
checker, and that program was programed to make the spelling "maths"
incorrect. 

One of the posters from UK asked us to use "Maths."  Most Americans
probably have only heard "Math." If different countries use one thing
and others use another, then either way should be OK, I think.

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