| 词组 | someway, someways |
| 释义 | someway, someways The adverb someway, synonymous with somehow, is recognized by dictionaries as standard in American English, but its standing among usage commentators is less certain. Evans 1957 called it standard, but a significant majority (85 percent) of the Heritage 1969 panel found it unacceptable in writing that was not "deliberately informal." What our evidence shows is that someway occurs at all levels of writing, but is not especially common at any of them. It sometimes shows up in representations of dialectal speech: • "Well! P'raps it's best to have it over with, Lime, but someway I feel kind o' scary about it." —Hamlin Garland, Prairie Folks, rev. ed., 1899 • I hate the hawks eatin' the quail, but I don't someway mind the 'coons eatin' the grapes —Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling, 1938 (OED Supplement) But it also appears in much more formal contexts: • Some way her books, which gave out that same energy and delight, passed away when her body perished —Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • Someway, somehow, we must let the peoples of the world know that. We must reach behind the façade of ministers and cabinets and commissions —William O. Douglas, Being an American, 1948 The variant someways is rare. Its use in writing is limited to representations of speech: • "Oh, it's a good morning. I someways like a day just like this...." —Elizabeth Madox Roberts, My Heart and My Flesh, 1927 |
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