Awww Blenk. What happened to it?
Favourite toy from your childhood. Page 6
Quote: Aaron @ February 26, 2008, 12:00 AMMaths because you're dealing with numbers, equations, calculations.
Lego because you have a piece of Lego. You don't just have "a Lego".
Bloody colonials.
And my point, mathematics is the full word, which is plural.
Math sounds stupid, and so does 'zee'. I used to switch sesame street off because that annoyed me so much.
Oh that big bird on Sesame Street. It drove me loony. I f**king hated that bird. I wanted it dead.
Yes, I agree.
My favorite toy was a nerf gun. Use to keep it by my bed so if a burgular came in i'd nerf him 
Quote: ajp29 @ February 26, 2008, 12:11 AMMy favorite toy was a nerf gun. Use to keep it by my bed so if a burgular came in i'd nerf him
Those sound like relatively conservative principles, Adam. You wouldn't sit him down, give him a cup of tea, and talk to him about why he turned to a life of crime?
I grew out of my ignorance 
Quote: ian_w @ February 26, 2008, 12:05 AMAnd my point, mathematics is the full word, which is plural.
Math sounds stupid, and so does 'zee'. I used to switch sesame street off because that annoyed me so much.
Ok let us begin
#1 Canadians say Zed, and we get made fun of by Americans all the time for saying it. I remember watching a Spelling B on television and the American judge corrected a young Canadian girl for saying 'Zed' and not 'Zee'. So we are on the same page there.
#2 Lego: Yes we are wrong in saying Legos. I just looked it up in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and it says Lego means "a construction toy consisting of interlocking plastic building blocks". As in plural you win.
#3 The Canadian Dictionary is a mix of British and American + Canadianisms. As my American linguistics teacher once said "I moved to Canada specifically because your English language is fascinatingly unique". Yaaay we're unique! And with that said I move onto #4.
#4: Math vs Maths. If you are a mathematician like my brother you study mathematics with the short form being math. Maths sounds "hic-ish" to me. "I'z done ma maths homework ma can A go out and shoot squirrels fer dinner?" I kid I kid.
Either way in Canada it is correct to say "Math" as we can see below in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary:
Here we see me happily presenting my copy of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (boy do I look excited!), then OH! What's this it seems Curt has found something...
Not my toys but. My daughter has a selection of troll dolls, i'm gonna stick pins in them. 
Hey Curt or indeed anybody
I have always wondered what the "B" is in a spelling b. Is it a cheat of some sort?
Quote: Curt @ February 26, 2008, 4:16 AMEither way in Canada it is correct to say "Math" as we can see below in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary:
Those dictionaries adopt colloquialisms once they're popular enough. Doesn't make them right.
("Math" sounds far more inbred 'hic-ish' to us than "maths" does to you, I can assure you!)
But regardless of how it sounds, it's still making a singular noun out of a plural one.
While we're on the subject, I noticed that some Canadians write ou (ie colour) and some write o (color). Which one is right for you, that always confused me because every Canadian I've spoken to seems to prefer one or the other, sometimes even both?
Quote: Curt @ February 26, 2008, 4:16 AMHere we see me happily presenting my copy of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (boy do I look excited!), then OH! What's this it seems Curt has found something...
BigTrak, without a doubt.
