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This piece was originally published October 12, and updated September 21, Open the next podcast segment in a new window to keep following along: How to write a good topic sentence. Her popular LinkedIn Learning courses help people write better to communicate better. Jump to Navigation. Anyway or Anyways?

By Mignon Fogarty Grammar Girl. September 21, About the Author. Anyway , I was telling you about the diet I am starting on Monday. Paris is expensive, but many people would like to vacation there, anyway. Anyway is acceptable in formal writing. Grammarly can save you from misspellings, grammatical and punctuation mistakes, and other writing issues on all your favorite websites.

To get students to read, teachers often bribe them any way they can. To get students to read, teachers often bribe them in any manner they can. Which word is it, anyway? Anyway Anyway , used as an adverb, suggests a disregard for factors that stand in the way of an argument or purpose. Any way Any way two words has a subtly different meaning. Anyways The most common use of anyways is in colloquial speech or writing or informal dialogue.

Get Dictionary. Add a comment. Common spoken American English is plagued by errant trailing 's' sounds in words like forward s , backward s , toward s , and anyway s. Davo: Actually, that's not true. I expect that the Google Books NGram viewer is more representative of the written word than it is the spoken.

My comment was about spoken AmE. But point taken, I think. But it's still the same preference. How about formal low-brow people? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked 2. Related 7.