a locus classicus for fronted "anymore"

[Lynne Miles-Morillo]

The quotation from the Times is  an instance of fronted negative  
anymore, but I think *positive* fronted anymore is a particularly  
interesting thing to hear, and this usage thrives around here (central  
Indiana) in sentences such as

Anymore, we all pump our own gas.

If we write ten times more slowly than we speak, what is happening in  
our thoughts during all that extra time? —Wallace Chafe

Lynne J. Miles-Morillo
lynne.milesmorillo at gmail.com



On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Alison Murie wrote:

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> I may have posted on this before.  I first heard positive "anymore"
> from a neighbor in Shelton, WN, in 1947 (which neighbor had moved
> there during the war from  rural MO).   I was startled by what, to me,
> was a novel use. I had grown up in Lincoln NE & Chicago North Shore.
> My older brother began using it after living many years in Portland,
> OR.  Go figure.
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