Positive anymore still once again

[sagehen]

>Beverly Flanigan writes:
>  I never get Cleveland students who
>say it, but Akron, Marion, Mansfield, etc. are all in the North Midland
>belt and use it.
>
>As a non-user from Minnesota, my own first hearing of it was at the ADS
>summer meeting in Albuquerque in 1980, when Frank Parker gave a paper on
>all the possible and impossible uses of it.  I still have that handout
>somewhere.
>
>Athens, Ohio (where it's not used natively either)
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My father, born in Mansfield O, 1878, never used it to my knowledge. He had
left OH by the turn of the century, living most of the time in Nebraska,
after that.  I never heard it in NE , though it may have been in rural
areas.  The first time I ever heard it  was after WWII in the speech of
some Missourians who had moved to the Pac NW.  I was surprised to hear my
brother use it a few years ago & twitted him about having gone native after
living in the NW for fifty some years.  I didn't realize how widespread its
use was until the various ADS-L discussions of it several years ago.
A. Murie


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