Larry the Cat
@Number10cat
Jan 4, 2023
Translation: You’ll need a maths qualification to calculate how long you’ll wait to be treated by the NHS thanks to this government
@waywardflf Hey Sunak. The plural of math, is still just math!
Let's get some Brits to weigh in, but I know I've heard it referred to as "maths" for different courses or topics of study.
@Florence Your thoughts?
@waywardflf @MeTheUnfiltered @Florence
I'm British and it's "maths" for every course and every topic of study. It's a shorter way of saying mathematics. We're baffled as to why it's called math in the states.
@CAV_82 @waywardflf @Florence The only phrase that I've ever heard, that used "maths" as a word, and I believe it was only used that way as way to make the phrase sound better phonetically, is when they say "maths, and sciences." Math, and sciences wouldn't sound right, but I was always under the impression that the word Math, references to all forms of math, in a general term, without naming them individually.
@MeTheUnfiltered @waywardflf @Florence
I just assumed it was Americans subtracting letters from the original English again like they did with colour and favourite etc..
@CAV_82 @waywardflf @Florence I'll concede that I don't really know for certain what is the right way. All I know is that throughout all my schooling, it was simply called math, or mathematics, and the only time I heard the word maths, was when put before sciences!
@MeTheUnfiltered @CAV_82 @waywardflf Yep.