"anymore" [LWN.net]

"anymore"

Posted Jul 29, 2004 4:20 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: X at OLS by ncm
Parent article: X at OLS

Interesting. My upline family resides primarily in the US northwest,
Oregon and Washington, altho I spent six years growing up in Kenya, East
Africa, as a missionary kid, and have lived in New Mexico, graduated high
school in Colorado, attended college in Nebraska, and am now (after
another stint in Oregon) residing in Arizona.

IOW, while I've had a generally broad geographic experience, none of it
has been in the area claimed to be the region the term is used. However,
it seemed an entirely ordinary term, to me. I wouldn't have been aware of
its "regional" usage, had I not read this thread. <shrug> Maybe one of
the other missionary families came from Tennessee, or something, and their
usage rubbed off on me. I don't know. I just know it sounds entirely
natural to me. <shrug>

Duncan

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"upline family"

Posted Jul 30, 2004 22:28 UTC (Fri) by cdurst (guest, #2953) [Link]

Interesting. My upline family resides primarily in the US northwest, ...

Upline family?

Yech, MLM terms are seeping into English!

Kill me now.

"anymore"

Posted Aug 5, 2004 15:15 UTC (Thu) by fache (guest, #23795) [Link]

Just for the sake of discussion, in the six years I have been living in
England, I have never heard nor read anymore used like so. I would thing
it's an americanism. Thanks for explaining anyway!