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Default Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson" LOL), the Sociopathic Attention Whore

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:00:28 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

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.


This is most unusual.


And both of you numpties are STILL wrong, as most other languages (including
North American English) do use it as singular exclusively!

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