Date:  Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:08:35 -0400

From:  "Peter L. Patrick" <PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Positive Anymore



RE: positive s'mores <just kidding>

My experience is the same at Georgetown, where the students really do

come from all over the US. I always mention positive anymore, and

never get recognition from more than about 1/5 of the class, incl. the

usual New England, Penna. residents. Often their incredulity is so

striking that I'm pretty sure many of them not only don't use it but

don't recognize it, though maybe a few are camouflagged users as

someone else suggested.

    Anymore I can use positive anymore myself (I didn't used to),

though not very productively. Maybe linguists are the prime examples

of adult syntactic change?!

    --plp