








Opinion concerning “anymore” vs “any more” divides roughly into three camps:
About the first two camps, little more needs to be said. Either statement stands on its own and needs no elaboration.
The difference in meaning considered useful by the third camp is that “anymore” is an adverb meaning “nowadays” or “any longer”, while “any more” can be either adverb plus adjective, as in “I don’t want any more pie”, or adjective plus noun, as in “I don’t want any more.”
The difference between the two meanings is illustrated in the sentence: “I don’t buy books anymore because I don’t need any more books.”
The distinction of “any more” and “anymore” seems to be recognized by many, but not all, US users and by dictionaries published in the US. At least one British dictionary (NSOED/93) and some British users recognize “anymore” as an alternative spelling of “any more”, but do not recognize a difference in meaning.
The adverb “anymore” is standard American English when it is used in a negative sense, as in “I don't do that anymore.” It is a regional or dialectal usage, mostly restricted to spoken English, when it is used in a positive sense, meaning “nowadays”, as in “Anymore I do that” or “I do that anymore.”
“But it is precisely the technical form, whereby truth is made manifest to the intellect, which veils it again from our feeling. For alas! intellect must first destroy the object of Inner Sense if it would make its own. Like the analytical chemist, the philosopher can only discover how things are combined by analysing them, only lay bare the workings of spontaneous nature by subjecting them to the torment of his own techniques. In order to lay hold of the fleeting phenomenon, he must first bind it to the fetters of rule, tear its fair body to pieces by reducing it to concepts, and preserve its living spirit in a sorry skeleton of words. Is it any wonder that natural feeling cannot find itself again in such an image, or that in the account of the analytical thinker truth should appear as a paradox?” (First Letter)


Upon signing a piece …

… it’s a way to assume the responsibility for it.

I only like anonymous work done by madmen, ah …


… or eccentrics. Or primitives.

