Re: CHAT: the surprise that is at me...
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 0:17 |
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DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> Apologies to Dirk. I wasn't out to disparage anyone's usage, but the
> affirmative-anymore does seem to elicit a reaction of "bleah" or "wha?"
> among speakers east of the Mississippi (John Cowan, I believe a New Yorker,
> is doing his own thing).
Say what? I was just surprised to see affirmative-anymore make it into
(e-)print, that's all. Anyhow, I'm not a New Yorker in the linguistic
sense, having lived there only half my life; I come from just outside the
NYC dialect boundary.
Anyway, it is still spelled "any more" AFAI-am-concerned. So there.
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