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There oughta be a law!
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 20 Oct 2012, 08:41 ---If the extra letter is "i", then no.
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Or "j" (my degree is in engineering).
(For those that don't know, electrical engineers use "i" for current, so use "j" for sqrt(-1) instead.)
Welu:
The only thing I can add to the discussion about the spelling of math(s) is that I can only pronounce it like "mass". If I try to enunciate it comes out "mats".
pwhodges:
A few years ago, before Oxford uni reorganised all its email addresses to get rid of a distinction between long and short forms (my department had clinical-pharmacology.oxford.ac.uk and clinpharm.ox.ac.uk, for instance), the long and short forms for the mathematics department were math.oxford.ac.uk and maths.ox.ac.uk!
Barmymoo:
I pronounce it maffs, which might be easier to say?
Method of Madness:
I say math and write maths.
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