Bug#695036: Typos in package description

[Justin B Rye]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

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
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