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DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
adv., pragmatic marker — in the right periphery of the verb, as in closing a clause.
performs a turn-taking function in most cases; asking the interlocutor to respond.
Type: 5. Frequency — As Aijmer (2016: Table 2.2b) has shown, in Canadian discourse anyways (not anyway) is used much more frequently following the main verb. While in British English and New Zealand English, anyways is not as prominent as anyway, in Canadian and Filipino English, anyways is a variant in its own right. Canadian English uses anyways following the verb (in 27 of 53 cases), which makes it stand out compared to BrE and NZE. Aijmer (2016: section 2.2) summarizes the situation as follows based on International Corpus of English data: "Anyway was typically associated with initial position and anyways with final position in Canadian English." Word-initial anyway is common also in NZE, PhilE and, to a lesser degree, in BrE.
Aijmer's assessment is confirmed in Chart 1, which uses a common phrase to filter out irrelevant hits. The phrase "who are you, anyways" is most common in Canada, followed by Australia, but is rather rare elsewhere.
Aijmer's assessment is confirmed in Chart 1, which uses a common phrase to filter out irrelevant hits. The phrase "who are you, anyways" is most common in Canada, followed by Australia, but is rather rare elsewhere.
Quotations
1977
There are many questions which brings about another question before the first one can be answered. One such question is can we ever be truly free. What is being free anyways?
1985
So what if we lose three or four games in a row. Besides, who expects us to win a championship in the first or second year anyways?
2010
[a dialogue between A and B]
B: We had to get a guy ... from uh uhm ... from ... Nation Air to bring it up to my mom and ... had him ... have it ... seen by the doctors. And uh anyway it was a a funny thing. It was a ... used to laugh always at my .... little mishaps in life.
A: How did you come to end up there anyways
B: We had to get a guy ... from uh uhm ... from ... Nation Air to bring it up to my mom and ... had him ... have it ... seen by the doctors. And uh anyway it was a a funny thing. It was a ... used to laugh always at my .... little mishaps in life.
A: How did you come to end up there anyways
2016
What has the RUSH been up to anyways?
The Black Gold RUSH has certainly been keeping busy throughout the months of February and March. Here’s what the RUSH has been up to:
First off, the RUSH would like to extend a big Thank You to the Sherwood Park Ringette Association and to Sheldon Taitinger for taking the time and initiative in organizing the 2016 U14AA Sherwood Park Friendship Tournament.
References
- Aijmer (2016)
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