Being rather fond of reading I come across certain discrepancies from time to time. Normally I am able to sort them out fairly quickly by referring to the nationality of the authors (ie u's being missed out of words like favourite etc) who cause the problems but I have been unable to come up with a plausible reason for one of the most annoying.

I am of course talking about the use of TOWARD and TOWARDS in literature. At first I believed them to mean different things, but alas they mean the same and there is absolutely no possibility of one being a plural as they are prepositions or adjectives.

So can any of you help me work out why they are both used in literature and soothe my addled brain before it spontaneously implodes?

bexter

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