[Ads-l] linguistics in the comics: "anymore"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 9 22:53:38 UTC 2020


Thank you, Amy! Though I hear it in the wild all the time, here in NE PA,
I've never seen it in print outside of a linguistics journal, before.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 9:22 AM Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

> Arnold's probably already collected this, but here's today's Frazz with
> that "anymore" that Wilson is always talking about:
>
> https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2020/03/08
>
> And that's exactly what I shouted when I saw it it the comics this
> morning: "There's that 'anymore' that Wilson is always talking about!" I
> was so excited!
>
> ---Amy West
>
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-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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