Is It ‘Toward’ or ‘Towards’?
Shakespeare once wrote, "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end." This line highlights a common confusion: the distinction between "toward" and "towards." While Shakespeare used the latter preposition in his sonnet, I'll stick with "toward." The right choice depends on
whether you're using American English, which prefers "toward," or British English, which favors "towards." Both terms are prepositions meaning "in the direction of," and the "s," or lack thereof, doesn't change the definition. These variants have coexisted for centuries, originating from the Old English spellings "toweard" and "toweards." The difference...
