All of the time I see people use these two words synonymously. For example:
Why did he move there anyway?
Versus:
Why did he move there anyways?
I always assumed that there was once just the word anyway that one day had an S added to the end for some reason. Is this assumption correct? What morphological process enables this to happen?
Best Answer
I've always thought the addition of the S was just an affectation. Slang usage.
People use laters/laterz online a lot in a similar way. There are other variants seen for anyhow, anyhoo is quite popular, spoken and written.