| 词组 | anyplace |
| 释义 | anyplace For a word as recent as anyplace, it might seem a bit surprising that we know so little of its origins. It first came to the attention of Merriam-Webster editors through handbooks warning their readers not to use it—Utter 1916, MacCracken & Sandison 1917, Whipple 1924, Lincoln Library 1924, Krapp 1927, and several others. The editors of Webster's Second had all of this comment in the early 1930s, but no printed evidence of its use; they assumed it must be an oral use and entered it with the label Colloq. The adverb seems to be American in origin—Phy-thian 1979 assures us that it is both American and wrong—and probably cropped up sometime around the turn of the century. But we did not begin to find it in print with any frequency until the 1940s: • U-turn allowed any place except at traffic light — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania, 1940 • ... the minister never went any place in the house but the parlor and the diningroom —New Republic, 29 July 1940 • ... doubted whether there would be much sympathy in America for fascism any place —Irwin Shaw, Yale Rev., Summer 1944 • ... if you just quit, you found yourself on a sort of a black list and they wouldn't let you work anyplace else —Edmund Wilson, Memoirs of Hecate County, 1946 Although the early objectors give no reason for their objections, Evans 1957 and Bernstein 1971 say that the objection is based on the replacement of the adverb where in the compound with the noun place. Bernstein points out that place has other adverbial uses and that other nouns, too, have been used with adverbial force. Anyplace seems to have been gaining slightly in frequency of use in print since the 1940s, and is long since established as standard. The one-word form has gradually replaced the two-word form that was earliest attested. Here is a sample of use from the past four decades: • Italian women dress more elaborately during the Venice season than they do anyplace else any time in the year —Janet Flanner, New Yorker, 23 Sept. 1950 • Anyplace would be better than these taverns —Richard Bissell, A Stretch on the River, 1950 • ... the worthiest effort in musical scholarship to be produced anyplace in the world —Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 26 July 1952 • Men could get the call anyplace, but it always happened to them when they were alone —St. Clair McKelway, New Yorker, 18 May 1957 • ... it was worse in Poland than anyplace else —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 • He wants us to look at what we can see everyday, anyplace, here —Robert Coles, Trans-Action, May 1968 • ... never quite at home anywhere in this world, never quite the citizens of anyplace this side of Heaven —Leslie A. Fiedler, Jour, of Modern Literature, 1st issue, 1970 • Now there just aren't that many men among us who could go anyplace, never mind to work, after five pints —Malcolm S. Forbes, Forbes, 15 Sept. 1970 • Anyplace north of the Potomac was unthinkable — William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 See also everyplace; noplace; someplace. |
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