>When I was in grade school, my English teacher would make us write 'anyone' 100 times if we used the word 'anybody' instead.
Our English teacher would make us write out lines of "I must not use get, got or getting" if we used any. He was mad.
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>I think endings in 'body' are more common in American English than in British English (that is why my teacher preferred
anyone). That was a LONG time ago though, so it may not be true now.
I'm not aware of a preference. "Anybody home?" for example, but then again probably "Did you check if anyone was in?"
I dunno.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
