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- From: hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes)
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- Subject: Re: toward or towards
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 05:46:28 GMT
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- In article <106864@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
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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.
- >
- >*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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- I assume you mean "city" as in "the City", where distant relatives are
- "something in the City" ...
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