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To: IrishPennant

Brits use “sport” as the singular/plural/infinitive catchall. Americans use “sports” as plural/inf to sport singular. I think Toward/Towards is used like the Brits use “sport”. Some language uses are traditional, not necessarily grammatical. Ask the Germans!


3 posted on 08/23/2020 5:46:33 PM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt! Treason should hurt more!)
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To: gr8eman

Yeah...I did my first fiction book last year....enjoyed getting out of the “process writing mode and into more dialect and less concern for my poor grasp of English :)


5 posted on 08/23/2020 5:52:41 PM PDT by IrishPennant (Proud father of my angel son Jon...)
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To: gr8eman

I would question whether they, and not we, are grammatically incorrect in every case.

I think there are a lot of words like this that Americans and Brits treat differently, grammatically.

English has become the ‘lingua franca’ of the world. It’s a very flexible language, and English words are used, pronounced and spelled differently all over the world. But the language did begin somewhere.

(I like the way the Brits pronounce ‘weekend’, and have adopted it. It makes more sense than our American way. I also like their pronunciation of ‘privacy’, but haven’t adopted that. It would seem affected and would not be understood, here...not to mention that we have none, anymore. :-)


11 posted on 08/23/2020 6:37:34 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: gr8eman; IrishPennant

Same thing with mathematics - they say “maths” and we say “math.”


23 posted on 08/23/2020 7:32:53 PM PDT by thecodont
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