Seeking Grammar Police Ruling - Typo's

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
>
> CJ:
> ...."maths". It ain't plural, why stick an s on it?
> 
> Geoff:
> Because the basic word has an s at the end and ain't a plural.
> 
> Me (CJ):
> In that case, shouldn't it be math's? :-)

Geoff:
I thought you'd drag out that red herring!

I think that if you discount the "standard" contractions such as "isn't", 
"they've" etc., Maths pre-dates the modern urge to have "Int'l" and such 
like.