On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Jon Corelis wrote:
> The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style says that amongst,
> amidst,
> and whilst are considered archaic and therefore pretentious in American
> English but not in British English, and that toward is prevalent in
> American
> English, towards in British. (I think by American they mean USA, not
> Canada.) This more or less accords with my own impression. The forms
> in
> -st to me would sound definitely odd used by an American. Towards,
> though,
> seems perfectly ordinary American English, though less frequently used
> than
> towards.
Shucks, us USers don't even agree our subjects with our
verbs no more, as anyone can clearly hear from our leader's
offthecuffisms. Grammer is a thing of the past, and so is
gramper.
Hal "Prediction is difficult, especially of the future."
--Mark Twain (also attr. to Niels Bohr)
Halvard Johnson
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