The D1 Meet'n'Greet

[weakwarrior]

Besides, if he hadn't said it, I'd have had to pretend he had or we'd have missed out on all that fun.

The reason I edited my original post is because I realized that I had misused the OED. The full quote of the OED is

anyways, adv. and conj.
1. adv. In any way, in any respect, at all.

c1560 Bk. Comm. Prayer, All those who are any ways afflicted..in mind, body, or estate. 1638 PRESTON Mount Ebal 10 As the Rudder of a ship, which turnes it any wayes. 1673 RAY Jrny. thro' Low Countries Ded., If either Catalogue or Observations prove any ways useful. 1794 SOUTHEY Wat Tyler III. i, Who may have been anyways concerned in the late insurrections. 1834 DE QUINCEY Cæsars Wks. X. 61 Nor was such an interference..anyways injurious.

2. advb. conj. In any case, at all events, anyhow. dial. or illiterate.

1865 DICKENS Mut. Fr. xii. 228 Anyways, I am glad, etc.

Now I moved so quickly to post that I didn't notice how after the Dickens' quote it says "dial. or illiterate." Having realized that I decided to edit the post to use the first definition (which is not described as dialect or illiterate). Of course by the time I finished my edit you had already called me on the fact that Dickens may well have used 'anyways' to indicate that the character wasn't well educated. And you were correct. I ran, but I couldn't hide.