Positive anymore caught in the wild

[Beverly Flanigan]

Since the SW part of New York State is right in the positive "anymore" belt
(see my earlier cite on a 70-yr-old from Akron), she's very likely been
saying it all her life.  (BTW, I took out the first comma in Wilson's
quote, just to reflect agreed upon non-pausing.)

Beverly

At 11:13 PM 8/14/2007, you wrote:
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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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>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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