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-ways

Also ‑way.

Way, direction, or manner.

Middle English wayes, the genitive of way.

Examples of the form include edgeways, lengthways, sideways, and widthways. Anyway is the only common British English example of a word without the final s, though everyway, someway, and noway are found in North America (even here, however, the final s is not unknown, at least on the last two). Leastways is now dialect or informal. Though once common, no new forms in ‑ways are being created, ‑wise being preferred.

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