whether there is such a word as "anymore" ?
Flipping microsoft wants to correct my "any more" to "anymore" and I don't believe there is such a word.
You can do it either way.
I prefer to say "any more". But I'm not American.
Notes to "any" in my rather battered OED (bought in about 2007, so a later edition may say something else):
PHRASES any more (also chiefly N. Amer. anymore)...
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Unfortunately Americans took our great language and corrupted it without our consent.
It looks wrong to me. And I have my language set to English (U.K.).
"Any more" and "anymore" can both be used in UK English, but they don't mean the same thing. It depends what you're trying to say...
Do you want any more porridge?
I don't like porridge anymore.
Are you sure that's not Welsh?
My presence on the forum this morning may be connected to avoiding my current essay crisis, and supervision at lunch time. (Not lunchtime).
I have a colleague who writes any-more. Isn't that even more worserer?
That's much worserer
Microsoft is notorious for its 'corrections' for both both spelling and grammar. I don't pay attention any more
Run Wales wrote (see)
"Any more" and "anymore" can both be used in UK English, but they don't mean the same thing. It depends what you're trying to say... Do you want any more porridge? I don't like porridge anymore.
(I'm not saying I'm right, but...) that's the way I understand it.
Microsoft can fuckoffredsquigglyline.
I've turned the whole damn thing off, though if you use the 'casual' setting you don't get so many red marks against your script.
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Quoth the raven.
MikeFrog wrote (see)
Read it again. You'll see that it's Scottish.
Any longer sounds more betterer.
So is it betterer, worserer or wrongerer if I say any more/ anymore/ any longerer ?
I like the anymore version as I am lazy and be can't be ar$ed to type more than I have to, so technically it is environmetally friendly as I am conserving energy.
Are there any other words we can join up to make life easierer and conserve energy?
WhatsupThankyou
lol
According to the legendary Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors:
any more should be 2 words, 1 in the US
maybe change your setting to UK spellings....?
