Posted: Mar 10, 2019 8:28 pm
Hermit wrote:The_Piper wrote:This one is likely to rile up UKians who think their way of writing things is the best way, even when it's not.
We call mathematics math in the US and I've seen, more than twice, non-USians being critical of that. Because mathematics is plural. Ok, that's a bit nitpicky, but reasonable people can agree with that reasoning.
Then the la-dee-da Royal Institution has some splaining to do with this wording:
"What Happens When Maths Goes Wrong?" If maths is thought of as a plural, that wording is wrong and sounds non-Royal institutionie.
Face it, saying maths is no better than dropping the s, and arguably less linguistically correct. The video starts out with "humble pi". Well have some humble pie as well.
edit- grammer
Some words are singular even though they end in 's'. You need not have an advanced degree in linguistics to know that. That's the only news I have for you just now.
That's my point. Math is at least as suitable a shortened word as maths is.