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Do british students study chem or chemy? The american word math is an abbreviation of mathematics, why would it be a contraction?


Americans are comfortable that ‘statistics’ abbreviates to ‘stats’

Brits are also comfortable that ‘economics’ abbreviates to ‘econ’.

Let’s not pretend either of us has a rational basis for this argument.


Yeah, sorry - I should have put abbreviation for the U.S. version.




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