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Why do people in the UK and US say “maths” vs “math”?
Because it's the short form of "mathematics"
Although typically I've seen the UK call it maths and North Americans call it math.
Is the ending s kept on abbreviations of other singular nouns ending in s? Or is that unique to maths?
I would say we disagree with the premise of the question. Mathematics is not a singular noun. It's a plural. It's the field of all mathematics. Therefore you preserve the "s" because you abbreviate the singular and re-pluralise it.
So somebody in the UK might (not commonally) say "it's a math(matic) concept", but more likely to say "it's a concept from math(ematic)s" or "it's a mathematical concept".
That’s interesting. What about talking about it as a subject or a class? Would you say maths are my favorite subject(s?) in school? Maths are my favorite class?
Good one, no way say maths is... I guess it's the subject of mathematics is my favourite.
To the best of my understanding, mathematics isn't referencing a singular object but is used as an encompassing term to refer to content from multiple schools of mathematics e.g. geometry, statistics, calculus, algebra etc. Or in other words, all the subjects covered in math/maths class! 😊