Comments on: I Heart Math T-Shirt

By: Alexx

Alexx — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:54:13 +0000

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

By: Amazing Amanda

Amazing Amanda — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:43:15 +0000

I want one of those for Christmas

By: Polx

Polx — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:54:23 +0000

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.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:49:57 +0000

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.

By: Polx

Polx — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:35:58 +0000

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?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:04:26 +0000

Maths? Not according to Merriam-Webster: math (circa 1847) meaning mathematics ... or the American Heritage Dictionary I think "maths" is a distinctly UK thing.

By: Vinterdekk

Vinterdekk — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:39:16 +0000

You're right. The tshirt is flawed.

By: Polx

Polx — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:28:24 +0000

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.

By: megaggie2002

megaggie2002 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:10:21 +0000

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

By: angelblade

angelblade — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:01:48 +0000

Cool!!!

Pd: a great idea will be "I heart Linux"

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:45:25 +0000

Great ideas! Hopefully we'll cover those soon!

By: streetattack

streetattack — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:08:29 +0000

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