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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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