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Thornton has traced /anyways/ back to 1842 and shown that it is an archaism, and to be found in the Book of Common Prayer (/circa/ 1560); perhaps it has been preserved by analogy with /sideways/.†

analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
As for /right away/, R. O. Williams argues that "so far as analogy can make good English, it is as good as one could choose."†
[52] The use of /gleiche/ for /to like/, by false analogy from /gleich/ (=/like/, /similar/) is characteristic†
Of analogous character are artificial words of the /scalawag/ and /rambunctious/ class, the formation of which constantly goes on.†
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analogous = similar in some respect
A /u/-sound, as everyone knows, gets into the American pronunciation of /clerk/, by analogy with /insert/; the English cling to a broad /a/-sound, by analogy with /hearth/.†

analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
A /u/-sound, as everyone knows, gets into the American pronunciation of /clerk/, by analogy with /insert/; the English cling to a broad /a/-sound, by analogy with /hearth/.†
"The three great causes of change in language," says Sayce, "may be briefly described as (1) imitation or analogy, (2) a wish to be clear and emphatic, and (3) laziness.†
The analogy of /knew/ suggests /snew/ as the preterite of /to snow/, and it is sometimes encountered in the American vulgate.†
But the analogy of /snowed/ also suggests /knowed/, and the superior regularity of the form is enough to overcome the greater influence of /knew/ as a more familiar word than /snowed/.†
The substitution of /heerd/ for /heard/ also presents a case of logic and convenience supporting analogy.†
As for /crew/, it is archaic English surviving in American, and it was formed, perhaps, by analogy with /knew/, which has succumbed in American to /knowed/.†
The case of /helt/ is probably an example of change by false analogy.†
/Wan/ seems to show some kinship, by ignorant analogy, with /ran/ and /began/.†
On the side of the /yours/-form is the standard usage of the past five hundred years, but on the side of the /yourn/-form there is no little force of analogy and logic, as appears on turning to /mine/ and /thine/.†
He gets around them by setting up a distinction that is well supported by logic and analogy.†
[59] In addition it has adopted certain adverbial pronouns, /this-here/, /these-here/, /that-there/, /those-there/ and /them-there/, and set up inflections of the original demonstratives by analogy with /mine/, /hisn/ and /yourn/, to wit, /thisn/, /thesen/, /thatn/ and /thosen/†
First there is the disappearance of /whom/ as the objective form of /who/, and secondly there is the appearance of an inflected form of /whose/ in the absolute, by analogy with /mine/, /hisn/ and /thesen/.†
There is an analogous form of /which/, to wit, /whichn/, resting heavily on /which one/.†

analogous = similar in some respect
Sweet thinks that it is supported in such use, though not, of course, grammatically, by the analogy of the correct "it is /he/" and "it is /she/."†

analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
I incline to think that it is some such subconscious logic, and not the analogy of "it is /he/," as Sweet argues, that has brought "it is /me/" to conversational respectability, even among rather careful speakers of English.†
/Usen't/ follows the analogy of /don't/ and /wouldn't/.†
And where no etymological reasons presented themselves, he made his changes by analogy and for the sake of uniformity, or for euphony or simplicity, or because it pleased him, one guesses, to stir up the academic animals.†
One such, now struggling for recognition, is /alright/, a compound of /all/ and /right/, made by analogy with /already/ and /almost/.†
So with the /kn/ in the German names of the /Knapp/ class; they are all pronounced, probably by analogy with /Knight/, as if they began with /n/.†
/ Again, to turn to French itself, there is /tête/, a sound name for the human head for many centuries—though its origin was in the Latin /testa/ (=/pot/), a favorite slang-word of the soldiers of the decaying empire, analogous to our own /block/, /nut/ and /conch/.†

analogous = similar in some respect

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(1) (analogy)
a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic

Analogies are typically used to explain something unfamiliar by comparing it to something that is simpler or more familiar. They are also used in argument to suggest that what is true for one situation is also true in the other.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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