"anymore"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Apr 13 16:05:02 UTC 2013


On Apr 13, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:30 AM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
>
>> "I find a lot of authors I'm working with anymore are including fewer
>> titles as a general rule."
>>
>> Email, by a book indexer; age unknown but likely 50s plus.
>>
>> (Is this what in the argot is called a "positive 'anymore'"?)
>
> yes.
>
> arnold
>
--and implying, as is usual, that this didn't use(d) to be the case.

LH

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