Timeline for "anymore" vs. "any more"
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| Sep 7, 2019 at 15:48 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Anymore as one word (even in "I can't take it anymore") is not standard British English; that sentence would be "I can't take it any more"). Just as "I can't imagine it becoming one word anytime soon" is not standard British English either. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 21:23 | comment | added | John Lawler | Any more in the sense you describe is a Negative Polarity Item. That's why its occurrence is limited. | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 4:58 | vote | accept | language hacker | ||
| Jun 24, 2011 at 11:16 | history | answered | phant0m | CC BY-SA 3.0 |