PBC—The Department of Scientific English Language

The words toward and towards can cause confusion and unease in people’s writing because not many of us are sure when to use which one. I t’s worth taking notes that both  words are directional words, in other words, most of the times they are going to indicate a certain case that has a relationship with movement toward something or someone. Furthermore, s ome people differentiate the two words in various ways, but these preferences are not borne out (proven) in the usage of most English speakers.   Neither form is more formal or informal or more or less logical than the other. Some dictionaries support this idea: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/toward  (Oxford Dictionarry) and  https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/towards  (Macmillan dictionary). However, you can use whichever sounds better to you. Toward and towards are both prepositional words that mean  in the direction of something or someone, in a p...

Math or Maths ? If you are an English learner passionated about speaking English as a way of communicating with the world around you, you have probably encountered with these words and presumably have been dubiously using them. Furthermore, if this is still a mysterious issue for you, then I'm going to break it down. * Math * and * Maths * are similarly acceptable shortenings of * mathematics *. What distinguishes both spellings is that * math * is preferred in the U.S. and Canada, and * maths * is preferred in the U.K., Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and most other English-speaking areas of the world (the most Africa's worth noting countries are * South Africa * and * Kenya *). You can use both abbreviations depending on your English influence or preference. There is no real explanation as to why * math * became preferred in some regions while * maths * was elsewhere. Both of these words date back to the turn the 20th century. There are examples of * math * in writi...