Date:  Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:59:14 EST

From:  flanigan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: whoop and positive `any longer'



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  Date: 29-Jan-1996 07:58pm EST



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  From: Beverly Flanigan              Dept: Linguistics

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Subject: whoop and positive `any longer'





  On Dale Coye's request concerning 'whoop':

  1. war /hup/

  2. they /wupt/ it up (though not frequently heard or said, therefore

    somewhat conjectural)

  3. she _didn't_ give a /hup/ (only negative for me, like `anymore')

  4. /hup/ing cough, /wUp/ing cough, /hUp/ing cough (archaic, i.e., from

    my childhood), rarely /hwUp/ing cough (spelling pronunciation,

    trying to sound "medically correct"--maybe even /hwup/ing).



  (Incidentally, perhaps Sylvia Swift has her IPA vowels reversed? Thus,

  /U/ should be /u/ and vice versa; and what Daddy does is /wUHp/='whip'

  alternate [how do we make an upside-down V=stressed schwa here??].

  Similarly, /wh/ should be /hw/, Old English-style. Spell-checkers

  (=spelling pronunciation) may indeed lead us astray.



  On positive `any longer': Although I don't say it, I think it might be

  said here in southern Ohio (if not in Columbus), nor does it seem

  inconsistent with much-attested positive `anymore.' I thought I might

  find it in Labov's "Where do grammars stop?" (1973), where he analyzed

  the form long before Murray (or me, or anyone else, even using Utah and

  Kansas samples!), but he notes instead: "Someone said, `These razor

  blades are going like hot cakes. I hope there's any left." He adds,

  "Not one speaker failed to interpret it correctly. There is no tendency

  whatsoever to supply a negative meaning to _any_ after _hope_. We

  therefore observe that the movement of _any_ into positive contexts is

  not limited to _anymore_" (p. 74). Again, it wouldn't surprise me to

  hear +any longer here; I also recall that one of the NPR guys (Scott

  Simon? Bob Edwards?) is from Louavull, though he puts down his own

  regional speech when he has time to think of a disparaging remark

  before slipping into it himself (ditto for Cokie Roberts, as noted some

  time ago on this list).









Received: 29-Jan-1996 07:59pm