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[Douglas G. Wilson]

>I forgot to mention the negative "nary," as in "nary a one."  In general
>use yet?
>
>Isn't "any" in AppEng "ary"?  Or are both "air" and "ary" used?  Native
>speakers??

MW3 for example shows "air" as a variant of "ary".

In this Wellman fiction "nair" often appears where others would use
"never", and in some other contexts too, presumably = "nary".

The speakers seem to be natives, but they're fictional ....

-- Doug Wilson