To: Lukasz
Sorry to intrude like this, but is "maths" actually a word?
I hear it used in Southeast Asia a lot and thought it might be a linguistic holdover from the British colonial days here.
In the United States as far as I know we have always used the word "mathematics"
An American Expat in Southeast Asia
3 posted on
06/18/2007 2:52:02 AM PDT by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: expatguy
Yes when I was an Expat, I heard it all the time in OZ. Must be normal Brit Linguistics though, FT is not Expat.
4 posted on
06/18/2007 3:00:06 AM PDT by
Woodman
("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
To: expatguy
Yes. Even in India and Australia, the shorter form of the word, ‘mathematics’ is ‘maths’.
5 posted on
06/18/2007 3:26:57 AM PDT by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: expatguy
I thought in the USA you used the (even shorter) word “Math”? I keep seeing it in articles?
To: expatguy
“Maths” is the preferred form in Commonwealth English, as opposed to the American term “math”.
7 posted on
06/18/2007 4:33:32 AM PDT by
fzx12345
(ACLU DELENDA EST)
To: expatguy
Yes, it is a word, but it doesn’t help the headline. Too many headlines fail to give a clue what the essay topic might be.
14 posted on
06/18/2007 8:42:29 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
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