A Really Awful policy decision on whether to use any more anymore.

This is a little job our new builder had to fix. Somehow, this amount of support did not inspire confidence.

On the building scene – a front door which, to be upfront, caused affront.  I think that the lintel was cut a teensy weensy bit too short, don’t you agree?

Anyway, let us now turn to things less concrete.  A building exercise with words!  I started wondering about this while taking time off other editing to do some more work on the pre-proof edit of Darx Circle (sadly neglected of late).  This is the sort of thing I adopt as a personal rule, but do not dream of imposing on the writers I edit:

 

I always thought that ‘anymore’

From USA came to the fore,

And, nose stuck firmly in the air,

Placed ‘any more’ just everywhere.

 

But, recently, I looked again,

And found that experts, in the main,

Expressed themselves as most unsure

Regarding which was the most pure.

 

So I’ve decided to adopt

One out of which I used to opt:

The ‘anymore’ I shall now take

As ‘any longer’ sense to make.

 

Then ‘any more’, as one may see,

Must mean a greater quantity;

Now, any more you want to know

I will not, anymore, here show.

 

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