Positive anymore caught in the wild

[Dennis Preston]

Wilson,

Are you sure about the comma between "easily" and "anymore"? I
haven't observed it in such speakers (assuming it means a
characteristic junctural intonation fact).

dInIs

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>Spoken by my wife, a native of the Wyoming Valley of the Suquehanna
>River in NE PA:
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>_I bruise really easily, anymore_, so I have to be careful about
>bumping into things.
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>-Wilson
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
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Michigan State University
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