Re: CHAT: the surprise that is at me...

From: "dirk elzinga"

> Thanks, everyone, for making me feel like a real freak of
> nature :-). Perhaps I should proofread my posts more carefully
> to purge any Utah-isms I find so as not to confuse those not
> fortunate enough to have grown up in the Beehive State :-).
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).

Having run into areas in linguistics class where it was definitely *my*
idiolect, I wanted to see if this had a little more currency than uptight
Wellesleyians from hell.

Keep posting, Dirk. I'll still cringe, but what can you do? You're still
from out west;)  ;)

Tongue-in-Cheekingly-Yours

Kou