Towards/toward (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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>From a handout, when David Foster Wallace was teaching:
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/03/david-foster-wallace-common-word
-usage-mistakes/

"1. The preposition towards is British usage; the US spelling is toward.
Writing towards is like writing colour or judgement. (Factoid: Except
for backwards and afterwards, no preposition ending in -ward takes a
final s in US usage.)"

I grew up in Tennessee, and "towards" doesn't sound wrong to me.  Is
this usage more common in the South?

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