Date:  Fri, 6 May 1994 11:27:42 -700

From:  Keith Russell <wkr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]US.DYNIX.COM>

Subject: Re: Anymore...



On Thu, 5 May 1994, F5JTL aka WX3W wrote:



> A friend of mine used the following sentence on e-mail:

>

> Society is so weird "anymore"

>

> I asked her whether this was a typo and she said no it was not. "Anymore"

> meant "nowadays" in that context. Is this something that has been reported

> before? Or just another localism (Salt Lake City area)?

>

Interesting.... I've been in Utah Valley (50 miles south of Salt Lake)

for 12 years, and have not noticed that usage here. On the other hand, I

heard it quite regularly at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.



Did your friend grow up in Salt Lake?



Keith Russell

wkr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]us.dynix.com