[Proposal] towards → toward

[zhonglish]

This is a proposal to retire the word towards in favor of toward.

British variant. Americans dropped the -s. Is the -s doing any work?

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[English]

Both “toward” and “towards” have coexisted peacefully since Middle English. Americans lean toward “toward,” Britons lean toward “towards.” Neither is broken.

This isn’t a word problem — it’s a dialect question masquerading as a grammar problem. Let regional English be regional. Vote No.

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