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tetrasmaster

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:38 pm


User ImageHmm. I was talking to--- er, over hearing rather, a conversation between a few of my step relatives. They were correcting one another on something, and so I was naturally interested. Listening in, I head them saying that,
"Did you know you're supposed to say anyway, when moving on in conversation and not anyways?"
I was kinda like. "Huh". I've always said anyways. So, is it anyWAY or anyWAYS?

Maybe I should just say that I digress, hehe.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:03 pm


"Anyways" with an s is considered non-standard.

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Organic Shadows

PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:10 am


Anyways is incorrect.
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:14 am


Hahahaha, that's a really good question. I usually try to avoid using any variation of "anyway" in conversation. It's a colloquialism, sure, and therefore less dependent on standard rules of grammar. But it just sounds so... uncouth to me. Sort of like saying "like" every four words. It sounds unrefined.

Totally exposing myself for the English Nazi I am. XD

NinpoLore


Elanchana

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:39 am


But how quickly we forget
Such a sure and perfect plan,
And unlearn the passions that once had burned.


Writers Inc: "Anyways is not a word."

I think it's just good slang.


But how could I have seen?
What was I to do?
How could I know I would find you?
-Erik, The Phantom of the Opera, Tom Alonso
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