Martin Eberhard Schauer <martin.e.scha...@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Gregor,

>> * Re "anyway(s)": I leave this to some native speaker, dict recognizes
>> both versions.

> I do my vocabulary search on dict.leo.org and did not find
> "anyways". There were sensible translations for "anyway". And I found a
> two forum threads, partly in German. Actually "anyways" is in use as
> well, but there many different explanations und views: regional variant
> (AE), slang, should not be used in written English.

As a native speaker, I would classify "anyways" as primarily verbal slang.
It's common in speech, but in writing the "s" is generally omitted.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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