Towards/toward (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/11/2014 01:44 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) wrote:
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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/
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>"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.)"

How about "amongst"?  :-)
Joel


>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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