a locus classicus for fronted "anymore"

[Alison Murie]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Bill Palmer wrote:

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> Where is WN?
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> Bill Palmer
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Sorry, state of Washington.  It used to be abbreviated "Wn."  I
assumed the modern Postal  designation was the same.
Shoulda looked.
AM



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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.
>> AM
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