> You seem amusingly obsessed over a trivial difference in the way two different varieties of English chose to shorten the word 'mathematics'. I'm not. I don't

> You seem amusingly obsessed over a trivial difference in the way two different varieties of English chose to shorten the word 'mathematics'. I'm not. I don't care. I know the world will eventually choose "math" because that's the way america says it. The only people who are obsessed are people justifying "maths". I don't care if you say "maths". Just don't justify it as being "logical". > As far as I can tell, there are no official rules for shortening words in English, so I don't think that 'maths' is in any more need of a justification than 'math'. There is. You add an "s" for REGULAR PLURALS. Like STATISTIC is a noun. Statistics is a regular plural. So statistics becomes STATS rather than stat. It's a simple rule. It's why economics is shortened to ECON rather than econs... Because economic is not a noun. Economics is not a regular plural. > Or 'stats' vs 'stat' for statistics, come to that. Statistic is a noun. Statistics is a regular plural. Regular plurals you shorten with s. So statistics shortening to stats makes sense. Mathematic isn't a noun. Mathematics isn't a regular noun. I already explained this to you. The fact that you think statistics supports your argument just goes to show that you really aren't getting it. Why you are so invested in pushing a lie even after people have corrected you, I'll never know.