For speakers of the King's English, we wouldn't say "econ 101" either. We would say economics.
101 is an interesting number! Winston was taken there in 1984 by a fascist group whose tactics included the rigorous standardisation and abolition of all variation and redundancy in the English language. Nice.
We call it Maths & Econs in England actually.
Hey I wouldn't argue with this guy maybe he has a degree in Physic
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It's just a regional thing. Neither is correct or wrong. You may as well yell at a french person that the word is "cheese", not "formage".
From the very article you linked:
> In English, the noun mathematics takes a singular verb. It is often shortened to maths or, in North America, math.
I lowkey am enjoying this conversation lol.
Please don't do this here.
A prescriptivist in the wild!
For speakers of the King's English, we wouldn't say "econ 101" either. We would say economics.
101 is an interesting number! Winston was taken there in 1984 by a fascist group whose tactics included the rigorous standardisation and abolition of all variation and redundancy in the English language. Nice.
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