the curious grammar of Ohio

[Beverly Flanigan]

Yes, this is it.  Very interesting.  The oldest of my mother's siblings
went to California in the '20s too.  Whereabouts in Appalachia is your
family from?

At 04:26 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
>Native of Southern Californian born 1947 into Appalachian family in
>California since 1925.  Everyone in the family used *anymore* this way,
>and also this:  "Anymore it seems everything's expensive."  I do, too; and
>living in Oregon now I notice it's common.  Are the two the same positive
>anymore?  I'm not a scholar, not familiar with some of the terms y'all are
>using.
>
>Marsha
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>   If memory serves - and it probably doesn't - Labov(?) collected an
>   example of positive anymore in Kansas(?) from back in the '60's. It
>   went something like this.
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>   Q. Do you find anything wrong with the following sentence?
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>         "Cigarettes are really expensive, anymore."