a locus classicus for fronted "anymore"

[Scot LaFaive]

>
> I'm surprised! I must have heard more positive (including fronted)
> _anymore_s during the four years I lived in Wisconsin than I heard in my
> other 60 years living in the Northeast and California.


I'm surprised as well. I've lived in Wisconsin all my life (four years in
the Madison area and 30 in the west central area), and I can't remember
hearing natives of either area using positive "anymore" on any regular (or
irregular) basis. Whereabouts did you live in Wisconsin. This is very
interesting. Wonder what DARE says about this for Wisconsin.... (Joan?)

Scot

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 11:28 AM -0500 8/18/09, Scot LaFaive wrote:
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> >>  Anymore, the airlines don't want to take the risks
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> >
> >Man that's weird to my Wisconsin ears. It makes my brain hurt just trying
> to
> >grasp it.
> >
> >Scot
>
> I'm surprised!  I must have heard more positive (including fronted)
> _anymore_s during the four years I lived in Wisconsin than I heard in
> my other 60 years living in the Northeast and California.  (Not
> counting examples from linguistics papers.)
>
> LH
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> >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> >>  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/business/18airports.html
> >>
> >>  August 18, 2009
> >>  Small Cities Pay to Keep Air Travel
> >>  By ELIZABETH OLSON
> >>
> >>  With airlines cutting back service in a weak economy, some cities
> >>  that are too big to qualify for federal help but too small to keep
> >>  the planes flying in have stepped up with ways to hang on: paying the
> >>  airlines, either directly or indirectly.
> >>
> >>  The cities, like Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Duluth, Minn., have tried
> >>  various strategies to keep their lifeline to the outside world.
> >>
> >>  ...
> >>
> >>  Officials in Duluth are weighing whether to guarantee an airline that
> >>  a certain percentage of seats will be filled. Once those targets are
> >>  met, the city will profit.
> >>
> >>  "Anymore, the airlines don't want to take the risks," said Brian
> >>  Ryks, executive director of the Duluth Airport Authority. "But they
> >>  want all the rewards."
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