Date:  Fri, 6 May 1994 18:44:15 -0500

From:  Daniel S Goodman <dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 4 May 1994 to 5 May 1994



On Fri, 6 May 1994, ALICE FABER wrote:



> Positive "anymore" is also used in pockets in the Hudson Valley. My parents

> now live in a small town about an hour south of Albany, near the

> CT/Massachusetts border, and people of their generation born and raised there

> use anymore in unambiguously positive indicative sentences. If it helps in

> isoglossing, this was in one of the original Dutch settlement areas and much

> of the longtime population is of Dutch ancestry. The church in town is the

> Reformed Church (to prefix Dutch would be redundant...).

>

In the part of the Hudson Valley I'm familiar with (Kingston and adjacent

areas of Ulster County, shading into the Catskills), I've never heard

"anymore" -- though I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was used in

some place I've often been within two miles of. And redundant or not, in

Ulster County a Reformed chuch is always "Dutch Reformed."



Dan Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]maroon.tc.umn.edu