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No. Go watch the video Houshalter linked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZCECvoaTA

The sensible and correct shortening is math. That's how it was originally shortened to. The brits went off-kilter in the 1900s and added the s to math.

Everyone, including brits, say mathematics IS difficult. Nobody says mathematics ARE difficult.





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