On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:18:54 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > 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.
Thanks Russ and Justin for your help! > 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. Ok, I'm fixing it in git. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Beatles: Cry Baby Cry
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