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hearsathought 4 hours ago

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dang 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Please don't do this here.

HenryNdubuaku 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We call it Maths & Econs in England actually.

nimonian 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Hey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic

hearsathought 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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cobbal 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's just a regional thing. Neither is correct or wrong. You may as well yell at a french person that the word is "cheese", not "formage".

From the very article you linked:

> In English, the noun mathematics takes a singular verb. It is often shortened to maths or, in North America, math.

HenryNdubuaku 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I lowkey am enjoying this conversation lol.

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QuadmasterXLII 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A prescriptivist in the wild!

nimonian 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For speakers of the King's English, we wouldn't say "econ 101" either. We would say economics.

101 is an interesting number! Winston was taken there in 1984 by a fascist group whose tactics included the rigorous standardisation and abolition of all variation and redundancy in the English language. Nice.

hearsathought 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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