the curious grammar of Ohio

[Matthew Gordon]

Positive anymore (including the sentence initial uses) is normal to me, and
I am a 30-something native of eastern Nebraska. It apparently has spread
there too and is now quite common.
I've also heard it from some Chicagoans though it's much less common there.


On 10/28/04 1:13 PM, "sagehen" <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:

>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I was startled by the use of positive "anymore" when I first heard it in
> 1947  in Washington state (Olympic peninsula).  I had never encountered it
> among the people I grew up with in eastern Nebraska and the Chicago North
> Shore.  It sounded very odd to me.  I even twitted my older brother a
> couple of years ago, when I found him using it, with having  gone native
> after living for the past 40-50 years in Portland and other places in the
> northwest.
> Now I think it may have migrated with the shifts in population during and
> after WWII to the northwest......?
> A. Murie