Positive anymore caught in the wild

[Beverly Flanigan]

But at least she understood that you meant you do and not that you
don't!  Non-users ordinarily don't comprehend the meaning, as I noticed
when Dave Letterman used the construction once in a joke and no one laughed.

At 04:01 PM 8/15/2007, you wrote:
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>Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Positive anymore caught in the wild
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>Last night, I said to my wife:
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>"Anymore I bruise really easily."
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>She replied:
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>"Really? The same thing's been happening to me!"
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>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.
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>-Wilson
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>On 8/15/07, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU>
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> > 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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> > >Poster:       James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
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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.
> > >
> > >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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