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English translation: we’d rather go east towards Ayres Find and Wubin.

10:24 Feb 22, 2012

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we’d rather go east towards Ayres Find and Wubin.

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Selected answer:we’d rather go east towards Ayres Find and Wubin.

Explanation:
If you are asking if this phrase is good English, I would say it is. It is quite informal, using the abbreviated form of "we would".

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Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 08:10

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we’d rather go east towards Ayres Find and Wubin.

Martin Riordan

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toward or towards, British and American use

Stephanie Ezrol

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peer agreement (net): +5

we’d rather go east towards Ayres Find and Wubin.

Explanation:
If you are asking if this phrase is good English, I would say it is. It is quite informal, using the abbreviated form of "we would".

Martin Riordan
Brazil
Local time: 08:10
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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3 hrs

Reference: toward or towards, British and American use

Reference information:
Toward is the more accepted use in American English, but towards is also used.

Here is a reference from John Hopkins University School of Public Health in the US:

Toward, towards

Use toward.
Only use towards in a quotation, as in W. B. Yeats's poem, "Slouching towards Bethlehem." Otherwise, as per the Chicago Manual of Style, use toward.

http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/style_manual/t.html

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-02-22 14:13:46 GMT)
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The Purdue University grammar guide, not about toward or towards per se, but still relevant in looking at the use of toward not towards in American English today:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/594/02/

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

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