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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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From what i remember, "toward" is the correct use of the word.  |
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pdxsteve
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Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| I-am-me wrote: |
| From what i remember, "toward" is the correct use of the word. |
Toward is more common in American English; towards is the predominant form in British English. |
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Freaka
Joined: 05 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| pdxsteve wrote: |
| I-am-me wrote: |
| From what i remember, "toward" is the correct use of the word. |
Toward is more common in American English; towards is the predominant form in British English. |
So then the two are interchangeable and it's just a matter of preference? Thanks. |
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Woland
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Use the concordancers at www.lextutor.ca with the 'All of the Above' corpus collection to get data sets of actual use that you can examine for comparison. If you want to look specifically at British/American differences, look at the examples specifically from Brown (American) and the British National Corpora (Spoken and Written). |
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