By Dylan Dyson / CTV News

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    Canada strives for all of its words to be proper. Math is short for mathematics. Appending an ‘s’ leaves you with mathematicies and that’s not what is meant, nor is it a word found in the Canadian lexicon.

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        But “math” intimates only one calculation

        Perhaps you mean “the math”? That is an American colloquialism used to refer to one calculation or small set of calculations. But we are talking about “math”, not “the math”. Again, “math” is short for mathematics. It is already plural.

        Attempting to pluralize something that is already in its plural form is nonsensical. Do they not teach your “childrens”, which is what I assume you call them, that in school?