Talk:otherwards

Error for "other words"

"In otherwards" also exists as an error, especially by NNES, for "in other words". I am unsure whether to list this here, at in otherwards, or nowhere. (Compare Category:Non-native speakers' English.)

• 1979, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, page 342:

  In otherwards, I can tell you I was on, in other words, between Jeff City and the City. I can show you where maybe I made an illegal entry into a store. You know, in otherwards if I can't prove that I was between Jeff City and this town within six ...

• 1985, India Textiles Committee, Consumer Purchases of Textiles, page 26:

  In otherwards, the balance 99.21 per cent of the people did make some purchases of textiles during the year under consideration.

• 1995, B. G. Demczyk, Evolution of thin film and surface structure and morphology: symposium held November 28-December 2, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., page 374:

  Here we shall be concerned with Lʹ≤L, in otherwards, the coherence length is less than the sample size, as this is most often the case for electron or X-ray diffraction.

- -sche (discuss) 07:29, 11 January 2020 (UTC)