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[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/2/2012 08:44 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>Well, the British/Australian abbreviation is "maths", so you can draw
>your own conclusions.
>
>     VS-)

My conclusion is that they would say "Maths is my hardest
course."  But unlike Monk, I may be wrong.

Joel



>On 9/2/2012 6:27 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>>You're centuries too late for mathematics. The OED says, "In early
>>use always construed as a plural, and usually preceded by the. In
>>modern use regarded as a mass noun, except when used of calculations."
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