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100% my point. Drawing a line at the purity of "maths" over "math" is the beginning of a rock fight in a village of glass houses.


Maybe, but 'we can't provide logical rules for names acquired over a millennium ago' seems like a poor reason to say 'therefore we shouldn't apply consistent rules to recent conventions'.

Someone asked about physic ... well people used to use physick in [late medieval?] British English... but that's for what we might call medicine now.




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