Math or Maths: You Decide

The outcome of this is legally binding.

The losing country will never be so stupid again.

I cant be arsed to look for any proof, but I'm sure we were calling it Mathematics, way before we decided to colonise the USA.

Stupid feckers lost the 's' in the ocean somewhere.

Give me an example of a "Math". One problem? So a exam with twenty problems is a "Maths exam"? Or is Geometry a "math" and Algebra a "math" and Calculus a "math", and together they are "maths"?

My text book when i was 12 was called a "Math Book"... blame the authorities.

They talk about "the sands of time"... but when you go to the beach you play in the "sand". You don't play with one speck of sand. So why is "sand" plural in that case?

Математика

If we are being completely technical here, its good old Webster that decided after the end of the Revolutionary War for the US to have a slightly different English than the Brits. He's the one that printed up dictionaries with changes such as gray, theater, center, honor, etc. He single handedly changed the English language. I'm sure Math is one of those things as well....

So get with the program you darn Brits, I'll email a Merriam's-Webster's dictionary to help you out f needed..:p

EdelBrock wrote: If we are being completely technical here, its good old Webster that decided after the end of the Revolutionary War for the US to have a slightly different English than the Brits. He's the one that printed up dictionaries with changes such as gray, theater, center, honor, etc. He single handedly changed the English language. I'm sure Math is one of those things as well....

So get with the program you darn Brits, I'll email a Merriam's-Webster's dictionary to help you out f needed..:p

I'll go check my American Heritage Dictionary.

edit: They can't help it. It has Math - Mathematics.

edit 2: I take it all back. The Concise Oxford also has Math - Mathematics, but it also has Maths - Mathematics.

It seems both forms are acceptable British English. It would seem you Engerlishers should consult your own Dictionaries before passing judgment.

edit 3: My Webster's lists both forms, but designates Maths as British.

Maths.

Look this isn't a debate, it's a simple vote.

Please keep your dumb opinions to yourselves.

Anyone caught using the wrong form after the vote finishes will be banned.

El Jarvo wrote: Does anyone else sit and verbally add 'ssss' whenever they hear an American TV show used the phrase 'math'?

Please say it's not just me. It can't just be me.

I do it too. Now I'm not sure if that makes you feel better or worse but there you have it.

I also add in words, so that the septic phrase "let's go check the scores" becomes the Engerlish "let's go AND check the scores". It only started bothering me when they started making Paddy Stewart say things wrongly in ST-First Contact.

It's Maths BTW, it's our language, so by definition our version is correct. Still, what do you expect from a land where "football" is played with a non-sphere (ie, not a ball), and barely involves the feet. On a slightly related note, I watched a thing recently where some kids of about 8 or 9 in some African country (possibly Rwanda), were doing geography, the teacher was pointing to countries (albeit fairly major ones) and the kids were firing back the answers like lightning. How the hell can some half-starved wretch of a thrid world child, who gets about 1 hour's schooling a day, be better educated than an adult from the world's richest nation? I mean is it nature (geneticly engrained stupidity) or nurture (being proud to know more about Poof Diddler than your own nation's laughably short, history)?

EDIT: In Chicago, Lecturer said to class "these guys come from Ireland", half the class looked about dying to say "hey me too", then the lecturer said "Ireland is off the west coast of Europe, can anyone point it out?". Now I lie not, when I say that what ensued was a tragedy invloving one foolish lad with a pointer making a total balls of finding EUROPE!, and then acting as pointer operator while we did a world tour trying to isolate, first Europe, then the UK, then Ireland, then the awkward bit at the top. I suppose it's fair enough for primary school kids, this was a fucking COLLEGE and these people were degree students aged 16-60!!!!! And any of us could have pointed to 6 out of ten major US cities too. I cannot understand why they (those septics who are this daft) are so proud of it, surely it puts them at a monstrous disadvantage, since most folks outside the US know the US (rammed down our gobs by TV of course), better than jesuslanders know anywhere else.

Maths.

Doctor? wrote: In Chicago, Lecturer said to class "these guys come from Ireland", half the class looked about dying to say "hey me too", then the lecturer said "Ireland is off the west coast of Europe, can anyone point it out?". Now I lie not, when I say that what ensued was a tragedy invloving one foolish lad with a pointer making a total balls of finding EUROPE!, and then acting as pointer operator while we did a world tour trying to isolate, first Europe, then the UK, then Ireland, then the awkward bit at the top. I suppose it's fair enough for primary school kids, this was a fucking COLLEGE and these people were degree students aged 16-60!!!!! And any of us could have pointed to 6 out of ten major US cities too. I cannot understand why they (those septics who are this daft) are so proud of it, surely it puts them at a monstrous disadvantage, since most folks outside the US know the US (rammed down our gobs by TV of course), better than jesuslanders know anywhere else.

So yer trying to tell me its important to know where Europe is, let alone Ireland???

Not if you're planning to bomb us, no

Not knowing where Ireland is, that's acceptable, but not finding it based on "off the west coast of Europe", what that is, is ridiculous. Any wonder your airforce can only achieve accuracy of +/- 1 tectonic plate.

El Jarvo wrote: Does anyone else sit and verbally add 'ssss' whenever they hear an American TV show used the phrase 'math'?

Please say it's not just me. It can't just be me.

Sven does that too.

i dont care what the vote says, we invented the language & we say it's maths.

whilst we are here what happened to the "it" at the end of "ronaldo takes it" when talking about free kicks, fed up with this lazy destruction of engerlish, i mean "ronaldo takes" is just wrong.

Hibster, can we have a ruling on the device often used on newspaper headlines in the USA where a comma is used in place of the word 'and'?

Things like

AREA MAN GETS DRUNK, FALLS OVER

or

Sex offender upset by signs on house, car

or

Police believe bank exec killed family, self

You do see examples of it sneaking into UK news websites where syndicated stories are reproduced. I have yet to see it in print in this country.

It's bound to make it over here sooner or later, so an early ruling on it's use would be helpful in dealnig with it when it does occur.

I quite like it, I'd probably permit it if it was up to me.

Math

Rev Big wrote: Hibster, can we have a ruling on the device often used on newspaper headlines in the USA where a comma is used in place of the word 'and'?

Things like

AREA MAN GETS DRUNK, FALLS OVER

or

Sex offender upset by signs on house, car

or

Police believe bank exec killed family, self

You do see examples of it sneaking into UK news websites where syndicated stories are reproduced. I have yet to see it in print in this country.

It's bound to make it over here sooner or later, so an early ruling on it's use would be helpful in dealnig with it when it does occur.

I quite like it, I'd probably permit it if it was up to me.

Dunno what Hibster will rule, but I conject that the first case is acceptable insofar as it refers to a(n albeit unfinished) chain of causality. The other two examples are, of course, another vile rape of the mother tongue by her simpleton whelps.

Funny, I made the first one up and got the other two from the CNN site.

So it goes

Shug wrote: It's MATHS.

Anything else is just wrong.

CUNTS.

MATH.

wankface.

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same as matematyka in polish, which is the same as mathematics (saw it in dictionary).

It's Maffs innit?

Maths then.

jeff, when your country can pronounce aluminium properly it can have an opinion.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: We pronounce aluminum just fine, thanks...

another case where that pesky extra letter just gets tossed out!!!

I love you all, but I think I'm going to choose darkness...

Do you all say nucular or is it just the chief dope? No reduction in letters just another corruption.

By the way it's Sums.

hibster wrote: jeff, when your country can pronounce aluminium properly it can have an opinion.

and 'schedule'

I say maths,

but why all this division

sum times I despair

plus it's nothing we can't sort out over a nice piece of pi