"anymore"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 14 00:34:18 UTC 2013


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> > (Is this what in the argot is called a "positive 'anymore'"?)
>
> yes.


Sadly, I've begun to view positive anymore in a positive light, anymore.
Until I got to his question, I couldn't imagine what the point of Joel's
post might be.

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