Date:  Fri, 6 May 1994 10:36:00 MST

From:  BBOLING[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BOOTES.UNM.EDU

Subject: Affirmative "anymore"



   The ascription of "anymore" with the meaning "now(adays), currently" to

an Ulster origin has little to support it. Among the ca. 125,000 citations

I have compiled of Ulster speech of the 18th and 19th centuries there is

not a single instance of the word with this meaning, nor, like John Kirk, have

I ever heard it so used in Ulster. I have one occurrence of it with the

meaning of "again, further" (replacing earlier simple "more"): "I forgot

that he was to come here any more to-night."



   Bruce D. Boling

   University of New Mexico