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Nowdays vs Lately - What's the difference?

nowdays | lately |

As adverbs the difference between nowdays and lately

is that nowdays is while lately is recently; not long ago.

nowdays

English

Adverb

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Agnes C. Laut, title=The Freebooters of the Wilderness, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Edward Noyes Westcott, title=David Harum, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=Pansy, title=Four Girls at Chautauqua, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays . }}

    lately

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • Recently; not long ago.