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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 02:15:53 -0400

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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 20:20:51 -0500 (CDT)

From: Daniel S Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]maroon.tc.umn.edu

Subject: Re: Usage: "any more" (fwd)



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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 22:40:40 -0400 (EDT)

From: Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]yale.edu

To: Daniel S Goodman dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]maroon.tc.umn.edu

Cc: stumpers stumpers-List[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CRF.CUIS.EDU

Subject: Re: Usage: "any more" (fwd)



On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Daniel S Goodman wrote:



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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 16:32:07 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN%YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]vm1.spcs.umn.edu

Subject: Re: Usage: "any more" (fwd)



I don't know if I can track down the last two or three flurries of postings

about positive (non-polarity) 'anymore' from my old ADS and Linguist List

files, but the earliest citation I've personally attested is from Lawrence,

_Women in Love_, when Birkin announces "Suffering bores me any more". This

also demonstrates pretty clearly that it's not (just) an Americanism. I seem

to recall other citations from the British Isles, but (as you may have

discovered) research along the usual lines is a bit hampered by the fact that

the OED doesn't consider 'anymore' a word, so there's no way to check for

first citings/sightings. --Larry Horn



Yes, _any more_ is in the OED, s.v. _more_ 4.a. The OED notes that "The

phrase _any more_ (freq. written as _anymore_) is also used in

affirmative as well as negative contexts in the sense `now, now-a-days,

at the present time; from now on'. _dial._ (chiefly U.S.)." The

earliest citations given are:



1898 _Eng. Dial. Dict._ I. 63/1 A servant being instructed how to act,

will answer `I will do it any more.'



1903 _McClure's Mag._ Dec. 215/1 There's just only this one any more.



I have not checked other sources, such as DARE; there may be earlier evidence

there.



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