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Boldpilot
Joined: 15 Dec 2006
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Location: Werribee ,YMAV/ YMML
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: Knots to MPH |
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What's in the yellow boxes RD.
I always thought that an apostrophy in a word made up for missing letters eg, math's= mathematics. English English. But then my schooling was just after Caxton wrote the language or was it Shakespear!! |
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rd
Joined: 10 Mar 2005
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Location: COMFORTABLY NUMB, in U.S.A. *** KOFF ***
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Mr. Tomcatdriver has it in his post.
The only plural for "Math", is Mathematics. There is no such word or phrase as Maths..Math's...etc.
While the " 's" or " s' " does work, it depends on the complexity of how you use it. Whether as a noun plural, or a persons name as plural.
They say the English language is the hardest to learn. And it is. Not so much as speaking it, but also putting it as pen to paper.
And guess what my worse class was in 18 years of school....ENGLISH. HATED IT.
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lc
Joined: 07 Mar 2007
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Location: Hythe, Southampton (80 miles southwest of London) UK
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| :oops: ok i wont correct you but i have always known it as maths. ask anyone from the british isles and i bet they will say maths :x |
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Ice
Joined: 27 May 2006
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Location: England
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| have to say im British and we tend to call it maths. Just the english way of saying it i suppose. Most schools here have either mathematics or maths on the timetables. |
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sonicboom2885
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
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Location: Debrecen, Hungary - Hometown Chicago, IL
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: |
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math is like sheep.
if its one, u call it sheep.
if there is more then one u call it sheep. |
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rd
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: |
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OK, then.
Everybody learned something new between American and British English. We don't have "maths", and they do.
And sonic is correct also, as "Math" being both singular and plural.
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groundsquirrel
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
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Location: Navarre,Florida-USA (KVPS,KHRT,KPNS)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: I reckon... |
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| maybe up yonder a ways, you all talk like that. down here in the real world we just do our ciphers and call it a day. I was always pretty average at arithmetic, but that's just the way my brain is wired. Hard for me to concentrate on long involved formulae, but I can mentally image things and get close to right most of the time which helps shortcut the process. Mind you, in order to see things in that light, you do have to do well at physics so you understand what legos are used to build the world with. |
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sonicboom2885
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
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Location: Debrecen, Hungary - Hometown Chicago, IL
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| hmmmm agreed GS. originally i was gonna be an engineer, and hence, i took a load of math n physics during school. |
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Emphyrio
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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Location: San Luis Obispo Ca.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| There's a program called "Master Converter" that I have found to be absolutely invaluable for converting one kind of measurement into another. Why, golly gee, you can even convert angstroms to furlongs if'n you wanna. I never leave my body without it. |
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Dan Morera
Joined: 07 May 2007
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Location: Heredia, Costa Rica
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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You could also ask this guy, he seems to know about math:
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http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/thumb/3/3c/CT-p0001-ST.jpg/300px-CT-p0001-ST.jpg :D |
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