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Originally Posted by Raphi'Elohim
If I was a Brit I would probably say Americans are butchering the English language but then again I am American. One thing that annoys me is that Americans say math instead of maths. It is supposed to be maths because within the last 2 centuries or at least the last century maths has expanded to cover like at least 70-90 different sub-disciplines.
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Try this. It's a collective noun:
Mathematics is a field of study/work. Abbreviated to math.
Singular aggregration of related/similar specializations/variations.
Just as Engineering is a singular aggregation of related/similar specializations and medicine is an aggregation of related specializations.
Treating math as a singular is treating it as a collective. A collection of related specializations.
I'll leave it to the brits to explain why they treat the medicine and engineering fields as collectives but not math.
