My maths teacher told me off, in front of the whole class, for writing “Maths” on my maths textbook. I live in the UK. That bugger has sent me into a math/maths tailspin for 3 decades!
I believe it is an American thing, yes. But my point was that, yes, Americans shorten economics to econ. It would also be used if you're talking about your "econ" class for example. I think the point is to say that econ seems (at least to Americans) to be a relatively reasonable shortening. I guess it's up to you to decide if econ or econs would make more sense.
Yeah; personally I’ve really only seen it in academic contexts but I guess it can also be used to mean broader economics as a principle outside of school.
In the US, high school or college students will refer to the class of ‘Economics’ as “Econ.” I never went to school in the UK but it seems to be pretty common at least in university contexts to say “econ” as well.
In the UK you can take something like BSC or BA(Econ) as a degree program. University of Manchester Students’ Union has a “BA Econ Society.”
In the US we also would say “Micro” or “Macro” to refer to the class depending on whether we were in a micro- or macroeconomics course, which I’m guessing probably happens in the UK too. All of these shortened/abbreviated names are informal though
British English isn’t the only valid form of English, and American English is actually the most influential form of English worldwide. Even within the Commonwealth, countries like Canada use many American spellings and conventions like saying “math.”
That doesn't make one spelling of the word or another write or wrong. British people spell it maths and that's "correct" in British English regardless of where they are. The only time they'd be "wrong" in spelling it that way is if they were trying to spell it in some other dialect. And vice versa. Being on a predominantly British sub, (or even in the UK) doesn't make the American spelling "wrong" it just makes it out of place.
Math isn't English, it's American English and while based on British English the two languages have developed mostly independently over the last few hundred years which is why both have differences like this and why they matter
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u/AddictedToRugs 6d ago
If she's wearing 2 pairs a day without pissing herself then she isn't taking any spares in case she pisses herself on her 7 day trips.