PSA there is no such word as anyways the correct word is...

Diamond Member Joined: Sep 17 2009 Posts: 3950

ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a huge pet peeve of mind. I cannot stand when educated people say or write anyways. This is what I think about while cleaning for pesach. Laughing

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/anyway-any-way-or-anyways/

Then we have �anyways,� a colloquial corruption of �anyway.� It�s universally considered nonstandard and should be avoided altogether. It might help to remember that �anyway� is an adverb, and adverbs can�t be plural.

Diamond Member Joined: Sep 17 2009 Posts: 3950

You are right, and in formal writing anyways shouldn't be used. However, in informal language it is fine. Formal language often is rigid, and therefore doesn't change as quickly. The leaders of change are the ones who use slang. The words then seep back up, and the language itself changes.

This is my point. Don't begrudge those who are using the terms in a post on a board unless the board is one in which only formal language is used or expected to be used, nor in common speech. If giving a lecture or making a presentation to a board, anyways should not be used. Between friends, who cares? Often it is said wrong to make a point.

Rigidity has its purpose. It forms the structure. Fluidity allows language to grow.

Gold Member Joined: Jul 25 2011 Posts: 1520

It will never become the correct word until enough people use it incorrectly Smile

Thus is the nature of language. It has never stood still in its tracks.

Anyways.....
sorry Twisted Evil

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I'd be happy if people would stop writing ALOT. It's a lot. It's not one word.

And for fun, Hyperbole and a Half's take on the ALOT: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
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Diamond Member Joined: Sep 17 2009 Posts: 3950

Don't even get me started on a lot.

I have never understood why people can't write very short and simple words like a lot. Btw before I had internet my English was actually BETTER...
Also, "naushis" instead of nauseous? don't they know it comes from having NAUSEA?
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Diamond Member Joined: Sep 17 2009 Posts: 3950

Spelling it nasheous is like spelling the word acshually (actually).

Posted: Thu, Apr 05 2012, 5:49 pm Post subject:

Isn't nauseous a made up word too, the correct word being 'nauseated'?
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I used to use "anyways" alot. Now I won't.

But isn't the correct word "anyhoo"? Wink

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Posted: Fri, Apr 06 2012, 8:59 am Post subject:

I get nauseas when I see people use the word anyhows..

Just kidding.
Ugh. My peeve as well.
And the word is nauseated as far as I know, the word that we pronounce "naw=shis" doesn't really exist...so I was taught. In any case, any event or whatever...
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Interesting: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nauseous
In French naus�eux, naus�euse, means having nausea.

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