New Math
Out of context: Reply #10
- Started
- Last post
- 10 Responses
- BonSeff0
There are many 'uncountable' nouns - such as 'rice' 'money', 'information' etc - which are the same in the singular and plural form.
'I had rice for breakfast' obviously means I ate more than one grain of rice.
Mathematics is clearly an uncountable noun - we say 'mathematics was my worst subject' not were.
There are other similar nouns out there - logistics, linguistics - and the question is whether the abbreviated form of these should be 'log' or 'logs'.
The logical abbreviation of the word 'mathematics' would have to be 'math' because to keep the 's' would be to suggest it is a countable noun.
In short, the word 'mathematics' ends in 's' but it is an uncountable noun so the 's' has no grammatical significance and therefore is not necessary in the abbreviated form.
- monies is a wordmonospaced
- nobody said monies was not a wordBonSeff