Maths

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[Pilotman]

You must be a Brit, or at least not American?   Why to Americans call it 'math'?  Surely you do it more than once? ????

[OneMoreFarang]

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[stouricks]

5 hours ago, Pilotman said:

You must be a Brit, or at least not American?   Why to Americans call it 'math'?  Surely you do it more than once? ????

In real English it is an abbreviation for MATHematicS. 

[Pilotman]

3 minutes ago, stouricks said:

In real English it is an abbreviation for MATHematicS. 

exactly 

[wpcoe]

Isn't that a contraction, rather than an abbreviation?

[chickenslegs]

6 hours ago, wpcoe said:

Isn't that a contraction, rather than an abbreviation?

Then it would be math's.

 

Maybe it's a plural of an abbreviation.

[rott]

On 9/8/2020 at 11:15 PM, chickenslegs said:

Then it would be math's.

 

Maybe it's a plural of an abbreviation.

Yes it must be, that is why there is no apostrophe.