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"Maths" is correct.
As ex-British convicts, the Australians use the real English language, not the hideous mutation that you 'merkins use. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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We're not all convicts! 
Quite a few free settlers came over as well (as British officers, servants, adventurers)
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From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maths?s=t[^]
"noun ( used with a singular or plural verb ) Chiefly British" - Therefore I concede. You are right, and actually so wrong at the same time. 
I can't help it if we took English and made it better. We don't use any of those phony accents those silly Brits use. Except for our southerners and our northerns, and some of the midwest.
Tea? ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: I can't help it if we took English and made it better ruined it.
FTFY.
RyanDev wrote: We don't use any of those phony accents those silly Brits use.
Well at least we don't use phony platitudes all the time - "have a nice day, y'all!" and so on.
And we don't describe everything as "AWESOME!!!!!" (whilst pronouncing it "arse-um").
And we don't call women "you guys".
RyanDev wrote: Tea?
No thanks. Can't stand the stuff. I'll have a ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) instead.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: whilst pronouncing it "arse-um"
Yes, American English is terrible I admit. However, arse-um? Who the heck says it that way? Perhaps the people that also say Washington as Warshington. But I have never heard arse-um.
Quote: And we don't describe everything as "AWESOME!!!!!"
You must have seen the Lego movie recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y[^]
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RyanDev wrote: But I have never heard arse-um.
Here you go[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That sounds like arse-um to you?  There's no r. You r silly.
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Yeah, we don't tend to put as much emphasis on the "r" as the 'merkins and Canadians do.
- American: /ɑɹs/
- Proper English: /ɑːs/
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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maths is short for mathematics, and is ubiquitous everywhere English is spoken.
grammar isn't short for anything.
Apparently some less well educated people overseas mistakenly use the word 'math' instead of 'maths'
They are wrong.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Good call - stick to smileys as your grammar is obviously 2nd rate.
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It's not a smiley you silly.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Either
It's not a smiley, you silly!
or
It's not a smiley. You are silly!
And it is a smiley.
"a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression"
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Don't be so cranky. "Let it go!"
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There's only actually 14 members. The rest are bots that have been programmed to ask silly questions in Q&A or post mundane musings in the Lounge.
Don't tell me you really believed that there is an accountant who would choose to live in Luton did you? Or that Wales has the internet?
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Blue Waffle wrote: Or that Wales has the internet?
We certainly do![^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I refuse to talk to a bot....oh bollocks.
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CarelessPoster?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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People keep teasing me about my alias name.
Anyway, I assumed that people would know what I meant from context! 
As in, we celebrated ten million members a while ago, and we are halfway to reaching the next milestone... but that's more words than necessary.
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CarefulCoder wrote: we are halfway to reaching the next milestone
If we are half way then the next milestone must be 21 million.
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In 39 minutes CP gained 27,126 members, it's apopular site!
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I'm pretty sure fat_boy counts for 200 of those.
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No. 5.5 million was halfway to a11 million. You don't appear to be a very careful coder after all...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Adolf resents the end of Win XP support [^]. The Bunker never felt so... cold.
- Edit: clipboard micro-trolls played a good one on me, corrected the link to what it should be. Just like a Microsoft patch!
modified 10-Apr-14 9:41am.
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Your link goes to "Top 10 KISS songs". Either you've got the wrong link, or this is a new version of Rick-rolling.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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