Positive anymore caught in the wild

[Wilson Gray]

Last night, I said to my wife:

"Anymore I bruise really easily."

She replied:

"Really? The same thing's been happening to me!"

However, I don't consider this to be a truly valid example, since she
may well have been distracted from the "anymore" by the "fact" that
we're both bruising easily.

-Wilson

On 8/15/07, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Positive anymore caught in the wild
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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:
> >---------------------- Information from the mail header
> >-----------------------
> >Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >Poster:       James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
> >Subject:      Re: Positive anymore caught in the wild
> >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > >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.
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>


--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
                                              -Sam'l Clemens

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org