From Graham -- April 5, 2008

Thank you for clearing up a simple problem I have with theAmerican version
of English. You refer to 'Mathematics' (plural - a wordwhich you used near
the end) but shorten it to 'Math'. The correctBritish shorten 'Mathematics'
to 'Maths', thus preserving the plural form.Your clarification came when I
saw that you only did ONE thing. In UK schools we do many sums: add-ups,
take-aways, times and shares, during our lessons. You obviously sweat all
lesson long just doing one. Well it saves the brain from overheating! Which
is why America now leads the world; you don't wear out as fast as we do.