Kamala: They're out of their minds!
Judge I rest my case..
Kamala: They're out of their minds!
Judge I rest my case..
Yeah, how many people keep a sledgehammer next to their tv, 'just in case'?You don’t think that that may be staged?
What’s the study of the economy called when you’re at college or university? Or what about politics, linguistics, ethics, tactics, aesthetics etc.No. Mathematics is singular. It describes a thing—a field of study—not many things. The S on the end doesn't indicate plurality.
Mathematics is a mass noun and usually takes a singular verb. You don't say mathematics 'are' my favorite subject.. You say "mathematics IS my favorite subject."
So when you shorten the noun, it's redundant to add the 's'.
That said, it's a preference thing. Americans and Canadians have the common sense to not add the 's' at the end since the whole point is to abbreviate... The English on the other hand do add it.. But it's just a preference. It's neither logical nor more correct.
How fucking dare you, doesn't everyone keep a huge fuck off sledgehammer next to the sofa ffsYou don’t think that that may be staged?
My Ashton Grammar English teacher (old Miss Greenwood) is rolling over in her grave, but my U.S. Uni Creative Writing teacher is impressed by both your example and salutation.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.
Depends where you live !How fucking dare you, doesn't everyone keep a huge fuck off sledgehammer next to the sofa ffs
Yeah, how many people keep a sledgehammer next to their tv, 'just in case'?
One statisticAnd you may say not all of them have a shorter version but you’re into football yeah? How would you say the shortened version of statistics?