John Darrington <[email protected]> skribis: > 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".
Oh, interesting, thanks for educating me. :-) Ludo’. PS: Your MUA seems to have troubles quoting non-ASCII text.
