the curious grammar of Ohio

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>   Positive _anymore_ occupies a special position in the
>   Midwest.  Geographic patterns of its use show unquestionably
>   that it is a linguistic feature...that has spread and continues
>   to spread outward from those regions known to have been settled
>   most heavily by eighteenth-century Scotch-Irish immigrants
>   and their descendants - especially Appalachia and the Ozarks,
>   but also including the Ohio, Missouri, and central-Mississippi
>   Valleys.  [this makes positive ANYMORE another item in the
>   inventory of dialect features - NEED/WANT + Vpsp, YOU-UNS,
>   REDD UP, NEBBY `nosy', to cite some additional items
>   michael montgomery provided on the ADS mailing
>   list a while back - that go back to ulster and ultimately
>   to scotland.]

 From the Scots National Dictionary:

<<ANY MORE, adv. phr. In affirmative sentences, "from now onwards;
henceforth" (Arg.1 for Campbeltown and s.Arg.). / *Arg.1 1928: / There's no
herring in it the day, but there'll be herring any more. --- It's waarm for
the time o' year, an' it'll be waarmer any more. / [Influence of Gael.
idiom (R. B.).]>>

-- Doug Wilson