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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: toward or towards
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:46:37 GMT
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- In article <hayesstw.233.728150319@risc1.unisa.ac.za> hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes) writes:
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- >>When do you use toward and towards?
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- >You use "toward" when you are west of the Atlantic and east of the Pacific,
- >and "towards" when you're anywhere else.
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- *BUZZZ*. Wrong. Lots of folks in "anywhere else" use "toward." I used
- to work for a city magazine that routinely lopped off that pesky "s."
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