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From: hayes...@telkomsa.net (Steve Hayes)
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by: Steve Hayes - Thu, 30 Dec 2021 02:15 UTC

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:58:03 +0000, HVS wrote:

> On 22 Dec 2021, Dingbat wrote
>
>> Do Brits who use "maths" sometimes use "math" like when using the idiom
>> "Do the math"? Or do they change it to "Do the maths"?
>
> "Do the maths" is what I'm familiar with in BrEng, although I suspect
> "do the sums" is at least equally as common.

What about "Go figure"?

And do you pronounce it "figger", or "fig you are"?

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by: Snidely - Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:17 UTC

Steve Hayes blurted out:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:58:03 +0000, HVS wrote:
>
>> On 22 Dec 2021, Dingbat wrote
>>
>>> Do Brits who use "maths" sometimes use "math" like when using the idiom
>>> "Do the math"? Or do they change it to "Do the maths"?
>>
>> "Do the maths" is what I'm familiar with in BrEng, although I suspect
>> "do the sums" is at least equally as common.
>
> What about "Go figure"?

Quite common around the beaches I'm near.

> And do you pronounce it "figger", or "fig you are"?

For me, "fig yer".

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Re: (BrE) 'math' more used than 'maths' ?	Steve Hayes
Re: (BrE) 'math' more used than 'maths' ?	Snidely