Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
-place, -where (suffixes)
Some commentators object strongly to locutions such as to go someplace, to get someplace, and the like, arguing that all such combinations should be with -where, not -place. Anyplace and someplace and the like are clearly Conversational and Informal, but they sometimes have idiomatic force, as in I want to get someplace and be somebody, which is almost as widely useful as to get somewhere and be somebody. To be going places, that is, “to be getting ahead, making a success of things,” is a Standard idiom and is useful at all but the most chastely Formal levels, where succeed or prosper or advance (oneself) might seem more dignified.
