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Former Member
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Why is it maths here and math over the pond?
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Former Member
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- and why it's tyres and tires
----------------------------------------- and petrol and gas - and humour and humor  BTW: Meant to say thank you for starting this thread, Scribe - us two being language-philes .... [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 5, 2011 10:33:20 AM] |
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gb009761
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- and also favour/favor (basically, anything that should end/contain in it's singular form, in 'our', such as colour/flavour/labour/neighbour etc.),
----------------------------------------- and theatre/theater - and organisation/organization - and sceptical/skeptical - and mould/mold... the list is quite endless...  |
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Former Member
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Yes, how come?
----------------------------------------One thing is spelling - but when it crosses over to meaning different things it gets difficult. Then a barrier of understanding may arise. I cannot think of any examples off the cuff, but I know they are there. Can you think of any?  Edit: This is not the brightest of examples, still: Football In the USA it's involves a ball that is not spheric and dress that makes you look like Arnold Schwarzenegger - and you touch the "ball" with your hands all the time. In the rest of the World (is it "the rest of the World"?) it's well, football, but in order to make us understood in the USA we call it Soccer coming, I believe, from Association Football or something to that effect ... [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 5, 2011 11:26:18 AM] |
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Former Member
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Math is singular, Maths is plural, a contraction of math methods or mathematics... and indeed, Merriam-Websters spits out: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maths?show=0&t=1304594281.
--//-- ... see also the "Your most frequent English Language Stumble" thread. oh and we still write Hotel because the tourists would not be able to find our Otels ;P |
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Former Member
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...I am not interested in the quirky spellings involving 'u' etc....more interested as to why it is plural here and singular there ....when as far as I know, boht are abbreviations of "mathematics" ......
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@ myself:
petrol and gas - may be able to create confusion as the UK petrol is petrol while gas is and air (natural gas)- in the USA gas is petrol and also gas @ SekeRob: oh and we still write Hotel because the tourists would not be able to find our Otels ;P Still, we can find your osteria's which perhaps could be called hosteria |
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...I am not interested in the quirky spellings involving 'u' etc....more interested as to why it is plural here and singular there ....when as far as I know, boht are abbreviations of "mathematics" ...... Oh, sorry Scribe - thought it was more - can I say: fanned out? |
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densnaps
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Question the Difference of the word Math/Maths between US/UK
----------------------------------------I havent a clue I shall continue to use the Brit "Maths" When talking about the Three R's I believe to be an abbreviation of Mathematics My very old Dictionary Circa 1731 defines Mathematics thus ;  |
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densnaps
Ace Cruncher Sunny Lancaster Windmill capital of England Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 4205 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Interesting the word Math
----------------------------------------is some thing to do with Grass.......  The work is Baileys and pre-dates almost all dictonarys Full Title: Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant. By Nathan Bailey. Second Edition. London, T. Cox, 1736. Title Page: DICTIONARIUM BRITANNICUM: Or a more COMPLEAT UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY Than any EXTANT CONTAINING Not only the Words and their Explication; but their Etymologies fron the Antient British, Teutonick, Dutch Low and High, Old Saxon, German, Danish, Swedish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, &c. each in its proper Character. A L S O Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the ARTS, SCIENCES, and MYSTERIES following. Together with ACCENTS directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography, and the Orthoepia of the English Tongue,  |
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