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Ol Good Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Mathstutor or Mathtutor

Dear all! How do the British say: mathstutor or mathtutor?
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it's math-tutor.. its a compound word.. normally mathematics is referred as math and not maths

  • it's math-tutor..
  • its a compound word..
  • normally mathematics is referred as math and not maths
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it's math-tutor.. its a compound word.. normally mathematics is referred as math and not maths
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The British would say "maths tutor".
Example: George is my maths tutor.
Maths is an abbreviation of "mathematics" and, as such, "maths tutor" is not a compound word. Here is an exhaustive list of compound words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_%28linguistics%29

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Thank you very much for your answers!

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