Re: anymore (was: Re: the surprise that is at me...)

DOUGLAS KOLLER <LAOKOU@...> wrote:
>
> From: "dirk elzinga"
>
> > it's a historical curiosity anymore.
>
> A detour: "anymore" in an affirmative sentence makes my idiolect cringe.
> ... Is this just my idiolect, or something more "back East"?
    I don't even know what it means.  Does it mean "It didn't used to be but
it is now." or "It used to be and still is."?

> Other Northeast speakers?
    I'm a native speaker of English whose lived most of my life in
Connecticut.

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99