| 词组 | anywheres |
| 释义 | anywheres Anywheres is an Americanism (not recorded in the OED or the Supplement) that has been censured as nonexistent, illiterate, or nonstandard ever since MacCracken & Sandison put out their handbook of language etiquette for Vassar girls in 1917. Subsequent handbooks treat it much like a social disease. Bryant 1962 believes it to be a receding form; our evidence would tend to bear her out, but the Dictionary of American Regional English has evidence as recent as 1981. The word is not dead yet. Here are a few samples from our less fastidious past (remember that anywheres is primarily a speech form and seldom appears in print outside of fiction): • "Anywheres in this country, sir?" —Herman Melville, Pierre, 1852 • ... if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places —Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, 1884 • ... I would rather live in Detroit than anywheres else —Ring Lardner, You Know Me Al, 1916 • ... it looked impossible that I'd ever be anywheres else —Joseph C. Lincoln, Galusha the Magnificent, 1921 • From this beginning, a skilled writer could go most anywheres —Ring Lardner, Preface, How to Write Short Stories, 1924 • Now instead of trees we have parking meters on Main Street... and very few trees anywheres else — John O'Hara, Collier's, 2 Mar. 1956 Anywheres is attested in the U.S. from the late 18th century. It appears to have been originally a New England term that spread. See also nowheres; somewheres. |
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