| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| anymore, any more (adv.) |
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| These spellings are both acceptable, although anymore is more frequent: We don’t go there anymore. Anymore [any more] poses no usage issues except when it occurs in non-negative contexts: All he does anymore is complain. Such uses are dialectal in origin but are now found at Conversational levels nearly everywhere. Edited English usually won’t tolerate them, however, still preferring lately, of late, now, nowadays, or the like and reserving any more for use in such sentences as Do you want any more to eat?, in which any is an adjective modifying the noun more. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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