Bug#695036: Typos in package description
Russ Allbery
rra at debian.org
Mon Dec 3 21:46:28 UTC 2012
Martin Eberhard Schauer <Martin.E.Schauer at 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.
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