On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 06:59:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > John Darrington <[email protected]> skribis: > > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 03:16:25PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > >> John Darrington <[email protected]> skribis: > >> > >> > * gnu/packages/math.scm (maxima): New variable. > >> > >> Should be ???maths.scm???, with an ???s.??? > > > > OK. (why do we use the British convention here, but Americanisms for > > almost everything else?) > > Dunno, is ???mathematics??? (plural) particularly British? Aspell???s > ???american??? dictionary recognizes it.
But in the abbreviated form most british people would say "maths" whereas most americans say "math".
