It must've changed since the cave man days when i was going to school. :D

Nice one Kurtz :O)

It's always been maths to me too.

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As a Cornish man, you are somewhat throwing rocks in a glasshouse there. Its Maths... and one of my favourate blogs (and just because its in my second langauge doesn't mean it can't be a favourate blog) explains why

http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.bl.../03/maths.html

LOL, was hoping you wouldn't notice that.:lol:

As for that Blog, yes I saw that yesterday when checking my grounds for discussion.

The blogger states:
...and.....

...and.....

So, in summation, basically the blogger starts off saying the word MATHS is wrong but then justifies it's use because, as I said, it has been repeated incorrectly for so long that it has now become the norm.

Repetition does not make something right, however it does seem that it forces the English Dictionary to adopt it as a correct word.:damn:

Oh I completely agree with you, that Math makes more sense in the pure linguistic sense. But Maths has become the accepted useage in British English.

And if you know anything about the development of languages that is how things come about. Mistakes are made somewhere in the time past which are carried forward until the point they are the accepted and correct form.

So as the blogger has pointed out in British English mathematics has become the defact spelling and is understood for what it is regardless of what grammatical arguments there are against it. In fact I don't think there is a grammatical rule that states why it is the way it is or shouldn't be.

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I forgot the name of the state, but according the state law: 2x2=5

Nah, I can't belive that.

One state did try to legaly define the number of pi to a fixed number of decimals tho. :doh:

It failed after many court battles.

I think one state made it 3 as that is what the bible has it as, something like a temple was 200 cubits wide and it's circumference was 600 cubits, forgot exactly what. I'm not going to check it out as I'm going to fly my kliene Me 109 about ot take the type VII for a pleasure cruise before war starts.

But its true. I just remember that it was XiX cenuury law around 1860-70.
may be they meant complex numbers,:hmm: ah?

I guess in the UK the same teachers teach English and "math".

In this context, the correct term would be mathematics.

Maybe they teach "Englishes" !!!

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