To: Xenalyte
It's because the whole word ends in an "S" - mathematics. It's one of those irritating maybe-plural-maybe-not words like "Politics." Popular usage is "Mathematics is a lovely field of study," and "Politics is a very lucrative line of work," but "Hillary's politics are corrupt, evil, and cryptofascist." Don't ask me why. I think the English did it just to p!ss us off.
To: Billthedrill
We dump their tea, they screw with our language!
50 posted on
03/25/2005 9:15:01 AM PST by
MacDorcha
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