"anymore"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/13/2013 12:05 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Apr 13, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> > On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:30 AM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
> >
> >> "I find a lot of authors I'm working with anymore are including fewer
> >> titles as a general rule."
> >>
> >> Email, by a book indexer; age unknown but likely 50s plus.
> >>
> >> (Is this what in the argot is called a "positive 'anymore'"?)
> >
> > yes.
> >
> > arnold
> >
>--and implying, as is usual, that this didn't use(d) to be the case.

And, therefore, that "negative anymore" is a retronym?

Joel

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