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[-] firewyre@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's a shortened form of mathematics, build a bridge and get over it

[-] Zummy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ok, but the British also shortened television and made it tele. That makes sense because they took part of the word to do it. If you were going to shorten the word mathematics, why wouldn’t it be math, especially when that would follow what you did with television. Why shorten the word and then add the s from the end for no reason?

[-] firewyre@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Television isn't a plural word tho? And if they were talking about more than one television I feel like they would absolutely say teles (tellies?), altho not British so 🤷‍♂️

[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

why wouldn’t it be math, especially when that would follow what you did with television

Because television is singular (a TV set) and Maths is plural, same as Bros. is the abbreviation of brothers. i.e. when abbreviating a plural you keep the "s".