President Trump

r.soleofsalford said:
For fucks sake where’s the Donald Trump thread gone.
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Let’s get it back on track. 45 is a weirdo, his VP pick is just as strange. And Mike Lindell needs to get back on the rocks.

He’s got the possibility of being beaten in a competition by a women, of colour, of ( non white) immigrant back ground, and it’s killing him. Pleasing.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Mathematics is a plural as it covers lots of different topics, arithmetic, calculus, trigonometry, statistics and so on. Historically in printing when shortening long words the trend would have been to use an apostrophe to denote removed characters (from within the middle of the word) so we get to Math’s. with a full stop ending. People would originally read the word in full but laziness and familiarity with the contraction eventually lead to the abbreviation being spoken as written. And then the apostrophe gets lost.
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Yeah. That’s history. Or hist’ as I like to call it.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Stats
Physics
OAPs

Literally anything that is genuinely a plural will add an -s to the shortened form. Even heard someone shorten Timberlands to Timbs once (as in the shoes). Obviously we call all agree that person was a wanker.

The question is whether mathematics is a plural in the first place, and like most linguistics, it's full of people trying to 'logically' prove that their preferred way of saying something is 'correct' when there's no such thing as correct, just common.

Having said that, I'm not going to take any lectures from Americans on the use of plurals, when they can't even decide within a single sentence whether something is a singular or plural. "Man City is playing much better than they were in the first half." Fuck off.
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They can be a singular....
 
Elbow beards said:
In British English, Mathematics is a count noun because of the different branches. So Maths is correct.
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We know the s is a suffix because we say mathematically, not mathematicsally. Same as statistically, electronically, acoustically, gymnastically, politically, athletically, all of which otherwise would have an s on the end. They also usually lose the s when they become an adjective, which is what suffixes do (change the grammar of a word). The thing that they all have in common is that they are extremely broad areas of study that involve multiple elements, hence, I'd argue, why they have the plural -s on the end. It's basic logic. Oh shit, that's the word that disproves the whole argument. It's basic logics.
 
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