[Null-Set]

Do british students study chem or chemy? The american word math is an abbreviation of mathematics, why would it be a contraction?

[jameshart]

Americans are comfortable that ‘statistics’ abbreviates to ‘stats’

Brits are also comfortable that ‘economics’ abbreviates to ‘econ’.

Let’s not pretend either of us has a rational basis for this argument.

[ndsipa_pomu]

Yeah, sorry - I should have put abbreviation for the U.S. version.