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So in your contract, they were indeed wrong to say “You can access the gym at anytime”.Ī: Because you don’t have your keycard yet. If you have a preposition, you’ll need to use the two-word version. Q: But you earlier said I could use “any time” instead and it wouldn’t be wrong.Ī: Indeed – “Come over any time tonight” and “Any time she’s in town, we go dancing” can also work.Ī: You can’t use anytime with a preposition like “ at ”. Q: So why then would anyone use “anytime”?Ī: Besides brevity, perhaps because “anytime” can only ever be used as an adverb.Ī: “Come over anytime tonight” or “Anytime she’s in town, we go dancing”. And even today, if in doubt – write it as two words and you won’t be wrong. Q: So are you saying that you can use them interchangeably?Ī: For the purists – which you clearly are – writing “any time” as two words is the historically correct version for everything. Q: Hey, that’s funny – they had that same thing written on the gym wall.Ī: Right, well we’re talking about the fact that “anytime” and “any time” are BOTH legit words. Shall we begin?Ī: We’ll let’s first address the elephant in the room. I just want to know if you have any time to discuss this “anytime” issue today?Ī: We sure do. They had written “anytime” as one word in the sentence “You can access the gym at anytime”… that’s wrong!Ī: This gym wouldn’t by any chance be called–– Q: So anyway, I was checking this one and refused to sign it.

Q: It had turned out in the fine print that I could only access it on 24/7 – July 24. You see, I get nervous ever since I last tried joining a “24/7 gym”. Q: Well, I’d had the tour and was thoroughly reading the contract. Q: Hi AWC, I almost joined a gym today – one of those 24 hour ones where it’s socially acceptable to do squats in public at 3am.

This week we like learning about “any time” anytime we like… It’s a celebration of language, masquerading as a passive-aggressive whinge about words and weirdness.

Anytime vs any time would work how to#

How to Build a Successful Freelance Copywriting BusinessĮach week here at the Australian Writers’ Centre, we dissect and discuss, contort and retort, ask and gasp at the English language and all its rules, regulations and ridiculousness.