A dialectal and nonstandard variant of "anywhere," adding a superfluous -s ending common in certain regional American dialects, particularly in rural or working-class speech patterns across the South, Midwest, and Appalachia. Typically used in informal or colloquial contexts and rarely appears in formal writing. The form mirrors similar dialectal constructions like "somewheres" and "nowheres." It can signal regional identity or informality rather than any error in the speaker's intent.
I looked anywheres I could think of but the keys were just gone.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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A nonstandard dialectal form of anywhere, with a superfluous -s appearing in US regional speech, particularly the South and Midwest, and in older dialectal writing. Grammatically equivalent to anywhere in all contexts. Marked as uneducated by prescriptive grammarians but entirely common in natural conversation. Used in fiction writing to signal informal or regional speech patterns for a character. The form is largely unconscious in speakers who use it — it is not a deliberate stylistic choice but simply how the word sounds in their dialect.
I couldn't find my keys anywheres in the apartment.
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(US, nonstandard, slang, or, dialectal) anywhere.
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