"anymore" = "not previously but now"

[David A. Daniel]

I, almost sixty-ish, from Southeast CA, also find this sentence unworthy of
note. Anymore - meaning now, these days, nowadays - is normal for me, and
has been since I was a kid. Although, it does ring a little old fashioned
now, as I think about it.
DAD



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My wife, a sixty-ish native of Northeast PA, is unable to discern what
makes this sentence worthy of note, unless it's, perhaps, the use of

"... directly anyway, but for ..."

Instead of

"... directly, anyway. But, for ..."

-Wilson


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>:      "anymore" = "not previously but now"
>
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>  From an email message:
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> "Many scholarly publishers anymore send the author to the indexer
> directly anyway, but for those who don't, I will ask if I feel I need
> clarification."
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> Joel
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-Wilson
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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.
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