Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.
Yes, it's common in informal speech in North American English, less common elsewhere, so dictionaries are going to label it somewhere between "colloquial" and "rustic dialect". Both forms have similarly long pedigrees (cf "always"); the S is originally a genitive ending, not a plural. I would take it out of a package description if I happened to be editing it, but it's not exactly a high priority case. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
