Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 1995 06:06:41 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Positive Anymore



> There are only two people of my acquaintance who regularly use the positive

> anymore - one from Arkansas and one from Oklahoma. From this limited

> sample, I would have assumed it to be more southern rather than midland.



Almost all of my students who were mystified by positive anymore yesterday

are native Mississippians. I, also a native Mississippian, also do a sort

of double-take when I hear it. The first time I ever heard it was in the

late '60s when I was teaching school on the east central coast of Florida.

I found it fascinatingly "peculiar."

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)