I Heart Math T-Shirt

1. streetattack
   September 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm

   I think we need History, Art, and Lit to be included for those left brained folk!

2. Alex
   September 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm

   Great ideas! Hopefully we’ll cover those soon!

3. angelblade
   September 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm

   Cool!!!

   Pd: a great idea will be “I heart Linux”

4. megaggie2002
   September 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm

   oh oh oh….you need a i heart ecology or i heart wildlife

5. Polx
   September 4th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

   resist!

   resiiisssstttt!!!!!

   …..it’s mathS.

   there’s a bloody S at the end.

   It’s mathematics not mathematic.

   If abbreviated it retains the S.

   sorry couldn’t stop myself.

6. Vinterdekk
   September 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

   You’re right. The tshirt is flawed.

7. Alex
   September 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

   Maths?

   Not according to Merriam-Webster: math (circa 1847) meaning mathematics …

   or the American Heritage Dictionary

   I think “maths” is a distinctly UK thing.

8. Polx
   September 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

   Alex.

   It has always been mathematics

   Do you study MATHEMATIC…?

   http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/math

   http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mathematics

   It would appear that your own dictionary supports my point.

   The word is mathematicS, which is oddly not pronounced in abbreviation with the S.

   I accept that this is the way it is pronounced in the USA, but that is immaterial as it’s wrong.

   Do you study PHYSIC?

9. Alex
   September 6th, 2008 at 12:49 am

   Methinks thou hath gotten it wrong, polx.

   Language changes, mathematics was shortened to maths (in the UK) and math (in the US). Math itself is a recognized and bona fide word in the dictionary, along with mathematics. It is spelled in the USA without the s at the end.

10. Polx
    September 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Ok Alex, how can you say that the word is spelled without an S in the US and with one in the UK and say I am wrong.

    You’ve tacitly admitted I am right by admitign it is spelled correctly in the UK.

    I continue to contest that it is spelled wrongly in the US.

    I am already 66% proven right.

    I say it’s maths in the UK, so do you.

    I say it should be maths in the US, you disagree.

    Dammit, I’ll get you lot to change yet.

    I am off to gather my canadian forces (both Anglo and Franco) for a long bitter campaign to get you lot to say ZED.

11. Amazing Amanda
    October 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    I want one of those for Christmas

12. Alexx
    June 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Math & maths are both acceptable, why won’t you accept that, polx? Either one is just as correct as the other. But what I wonder is: since when do abbreviations take out the middle of the word (e.g. MATHematicS)? Doesn’t it make more sense to shorten it to just the first couple of letters? After all, Chemistry is shortened often to Chem, not Chemy. :S

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