19. "RE: GG Book 2 Act IV: Magie Domestique"
In response to message #4
>>> Any road, the child is safe now. >> >>Where does this variation on anyway come from? I've seen it only in a >>game before (over in FFXIV) and took it for something they'd invented >>for pseudo-medieval flavor, but clearly it has a more general source. > >I'm not 100% sure, but I want to say it comes from one of the dialects >of the North of England—maybe Yorkshire? Victor's journal >probably isn't actually in English, so in this case it's >probably standing in for a similarly archaic phrase from northern >Gallic.
I know it was in use in the Liverpool area: I picked it up myself from the Beatles.