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Why is "anyways" listed? #320

Closed getsnoopy closed 2 months ago

getsnoopy commented 3 years ago

The word anyways is listed as a dialect, non-standard word in every dictionary around. Why is it still listed in the dictionaries then, especially when anyway is already available?

kevina commented 3 years ago

M-W labels it as informal, not nonstandard like it does for irregardless.

@biljir what are your thoughts?

biljir commented 3 years ago

My feeling is that its presence is more likely to be confusing than its absence for a spelling checker. If someone specifically wants to use the word "anyways", they can certainly figure out how to spell it if they make a bad guess and "anyway" is suggested.

I don't feel extremely strongly on this issue however.

On Thu, May 27, 2021, at 2:13 PM, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

M-W labels it as informal, not nonstandard like it does for irregardless https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless.

@biljir https://github.com/biljir what are your thoughts?

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kevina commented 3 years ago

Okay, I think I am going to mark this one as a variant. This will remove it from the normal size dictionary. It will still appear in the larger en_US dictionary. Since it is labeled as only being used in the U.S., it will also be removed from the non-en_US dictionaries.