Positive anymore caught in the wild

[James Harbeck]

>Spoken by my wife, a native of the Wyoming Valley of the Suquehanna
>River in NE PA:
>
>_I bruise really easily, anymore_, so I have to be careful about
>bumping into things.

I heard my grandmother, an 87-year-old lifelong resident of the
Southern Tier of Western New York, use the positive "anymore" this
past weekend. I don't know how long she's been using it.

James Harbeck.

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