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Or maybe MathMeaws ?
I'm told the plural of Mathmo is Mathmoi.
Immortal Wombat
I'm told the plural of Mathmo is Mathmoi.


like "Math es moi!" ?
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Chardonnay
Camford
It's MSc. No i.


The degree I'm starting in Oct is MSci.
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Camford
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/me is not bothered.

Now the improtant question, Physics or sleep.
Michael Mourao
like "Math es moi!" ?

No, pronounced "mathmoy". Greek contruction or something.
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Well I'm inconsistent within myself.. because I say Nat-Skee and Comp-Sigh :smile:
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spin
Well I'm inconsistent within myself.. because I say Nat-Skee and Comp-Sigh :smile:

Computer Scientists sigh all the time...
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Helenia
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Chardonnay
I don't go to Cambridge or anything, but surely it's got to be 'sigh'. I've always said sigh! How would you say MSci then? M-Sigh surely?


No, it's absolutely unequivocally Natski and Compski. But Emsigh. English is full of contradictions, that's why it's so great.

Oh, and Mathmows.
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Camford
Computer Scientists sigh all the time...


Do they? I only know one and I don't think I've ever heard him sigh.. :rolleyes:
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Chardonnay
Helenia
No, it's absolutely unequivocally Natski and Compski. But Emsigh. English is full of contradictions, that's why it's so great.

Oh, and Mathmows.


I'll take your word for it! :smile: So it's Natski for the course, and the person that studies it, or does a Natski study Natsigh?
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fishpaste
nobody ever ever ever would say natsigh in any context, it would sound silly! :smile:
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spin
Do they? I only know one and I don't think I've ever heard him sigh.. :rolleyes:

I do at least.
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Adhsur
Very trivial question, but I was just having a dispute with someone over the pronunciation of "Compsci" and "Natsci". Are they pronounced with a sigh (e.g. Comp-sigh) or a skee (Comp-skee)?

Surely sigh would make sense as you don't pronounce science "skeense" do you? :biggrin:

:biggrin:

It's definitely skee.

But then there's also people who don't pronounce the p (like me most of the time) so it's either com-skee or comp-skee.

A.
I'll just call them computer science students for ease...
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Michael Mourao
I'll just call them computer science students for ease...


Now, that just spoils all the fun!
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xyro
compskee sounds like something from the cold war.

also, isnt it mathmos (pl.) ?
Natskee natskee natskee. Always. Apparently it started a few years back when there was a fashion for making everything russian-sounding? Dunno. But definitely natskee.

And yep, MSci is M-Sigh, because people doing four-year courses are too sad to join in with the ski-ing :p: (or possibly too sane). Camford - you get an MSci here after doing a four year course. You can only get it in the physical sciences and biochemistry. Discrimination, say I.
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I quite like the sound of Nat-skee; I daresay it sounds rather eccentric!

I think Mathmos should be acceptable. The only word I can think of right now with a similar ending is "maestro." The plural of "maestro" is wither "maestros" or "maestri." So mathmos = maestros. :wink:

I'm not sure about mathmoi, though. It sounds a bit French...
"Bonjour, nous sommes des mathmoi!" Also if "maestro" becomes "maestri, " then can "mathmo" become "mathmi?!" ("mi" rhyming with "pi :wink: "
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minimo
I quite like the sound of Nat-skee; I daresay it sounds rather eccentric!

I think Mathmos should be acceptable. The only word I can think of right now with a similar ending is "maestro." The plural of "maestro" is wither "maestros" or "maestri." So mathmos = maestros. :wink:

I'm not sure about mathmoi, though. It sounds a bit French...
"Bonjour, nous sommes des mathmoi!" Also if "maestro" becomes "maestri, " then can "mathmo" become "mathmi?!" ("mi" rhyming with "pi :wink: "

Are you going there to do MML? :biggrin:

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