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Yoong Liat
 
Reply Wed 1 Aug, 2007 08:36 pm
The second period today is Maths.

Is the sentence correctly phrased?

Thanks.
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Roberta
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 02:31 am
Re: correctly phrased?
Yoong Liat wrote:
The second period today is Maths.

Is the sentence correctly phrased?

Thanks.


No. Math is not plural, nor should it be capitalized.

"The second period today is math" is awkward.

I might say, "Today for second period I have math." This is an informal approach, as is your original sentence.
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plantress
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 06:49 am
Math will be during second period today
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 06:58 am
"Math" is American usage. "Maths" is British slang.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 08:23 am
Re: correctly phrased?
Roberta wrote:
Yoong Liat wrote:
The second period today is Maths.

Is the sentence correctly phrased?

Thanks.


No. Math is not plural, nor should it be capitalized.

"The second period today is math" is awkward.

I might say, "Today for second period I have math." This is an informal approach, as is your original sentence.

Thanks, Math is not plural, nor should it be capitalized.
I agree Maths should not be capitalized
But maths is BrE, while math is AmE if I'm not wrong.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 08:25 am
Noddy24 wrote:
"Math" is American usage. "Maths" is British slang.

No, as I said earlier, 'maths' is BrE if I'm not wrong. It is definitely not slang.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 08:30 am
"Maths" started as schoolboy slang and became a respected part of the English language.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Thu 2 Aug, 2007 08:36 am
Noddy24 wrote:
"Maths" started as schoolboy slang and became a respected part of the English language.


Thanks. I didn't know that.
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