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Old 27-June-2009, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Perikles View Post
And I find 'math' really odd, because I've never heard anything other than 'maths'. The plural is derived from the Greek ending -ikos meaning 'pertaining to' and in plural -ika as a neuter plural generally 'things pertaining to', from which words like economics derive. I find the plural quite natural, presumably through habit.
We, in the US, tend to use specialized or proper nouns for different types of math, and since we use them as subtypes, the umbrella term is usually used as a singular instead of as a plural. However, I'm not sure if mathematics is meant to be plural, but we tend to use it as singular.
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