Here's the entry in the MW electronic dictionary: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary any*more \'e-ne-"mor, -"mor\ adverb (14c) 1 : any longer <I was not moving anymore with my feet ó Anais Nin> 2 : at the present time : now <hardly a day passes without rain anymore> Usage Although both anymore and any more are found in written use, in the 20th century anymore is the more common styling. Anymore is regularly used in negative <no one can be natural anymore ó May Sarton>, interrogative <do you read much anymore?>, and conditional <if you do that anymore, I'll leave> contexts and in certain positive constructions <the Washingtonian is too sophisticated to believe anymore in solutions ó Russell Baker>. In many regions of the U.S. the use of anymore in sense 2 is quite common in positive constructions, esp. in speech <everybody's cool anymore ó Bill White> <every time we leave the house anymore, I play a game called ìStump the Housebreakerî ó Erma Bombeck>. The positive use appears to have been of Midland origin, but it is now reported to be widespread in all speech areas of the U.S. except New England. ©1996, 1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ©1995 Merriam-Webster Inc. JVB James Vanden Bosch (616) 957-6592 Department of English [log in to unmask] Calvin College fax: (616) 957-8508 Grand Rapids, MI 49546 http://www.calvin.edu/~vand/