On 29/08/2017 20:40, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:28:31 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 29/08/2017 20:17, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:27:00 +0100, notX wrote:

On 08/29/2017 09:32 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

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Maths.Â* Short for.... mathematics.Â* Not mathematic.Â* You yanks can do
more than one kind, right?

"Statistic" is not a word, in the same way "mathematic" is not. Also,
neither is plural.

Statistic most certainly IS a word.Â* "That statistic is incorrect".

Mathematics is plural, there are several branches of it.Â* We never say
mathematic, because we never talk about one particular aspect, without
just naming it precisely, like "addition".

So maths is plural just like mathematics.

If you shorten statistics, you get stats.Â* So if you shorten
mathematics, you get maths.

We invented the English language, you *******ised it.

Definition of maths in English:




maths
PLURAL NOUN

British
treated as singular Mathematics.
as modifier €˜her mother was a maths teacher

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/maths

So you agree with me then.

Yes.