ALWAYS
ADVERBS
► ALL DAYS always, forever → 1000 obs.
► ALLERS always → 1833 colloq.
► ALL THE WAY always, constantly → 1976 Amer. dial.
► ALLUS always → 1739 colloq.
► AY ► AYE always, ever, continually → 1175 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► AYLE always, all along → 1686 Eng. dial.
► AY-WHEN always, at every time → 1485 obs.
► EVER AND ALWAYS always; persistently → 1967 Amer. dial.
► EVERLY always, constantly, perpetually, frequently, continually, continuously → 1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► EVERMORE always, continually → 1928 Amer. dial.
► EVERY-WHEN always, at all times → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IVERSOME always → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON-O-NENA always → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REGULAR always, regularly; steadily → 1875 Eng. dial.
► TO THE END OF THE CHAPTER always; to the end; until death → 1840 colloq.
► TWENTY-FOUR SEVEN always, at all times, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week → 1989 US sl.
PHRASES
► AS LONG AS ONE’S ARSE POINTS TO THE GROUND always, forever → 1988 Aust. sl.
► THE LONGEST DAY ONE HAS TO LIVE always, for the rest of one’s life → 1774 Amer. dial.