Re: Simple Past vs. Past Perfect

In article <hc05ut$85c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Pat Durkin" <durk183@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"MC" <copespaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:copespaz-658EEA.12273824102009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Anymore at the beginning of a sentence seems to be a US regionalism
meaning "these days." Why that should be I have no idea, since it
makes
no sense to me, but I have friends in Atlanta and other places in
the
south who use it routinely.

And I hear it occasionally here in Wisconsin. I couldn't localize it
as to a particular region or ethnic usage. My family never used it,
but they do say "nowadays" and "nowdays". "Anymore" as I provided in
the example has the same meaning. As does your "these days".

In Wisconsin? Where? I've lived in Wisconsin for most of my 75 years
and encountered a variety of local dialect variations(something I've
studied seriously in the past) and have never heard it that I can
recall--and my memory is in much better shape than my knees nowadays.

Some decades ago I used to teach English first in an area with a strong
German background where I heard idioms that were quite obviously German,
and then later another where we had some Polish influx recent enough
that we had teenagers with a "Lublin accent" a remedial speech teacher
was trying to "cure" 8-)

But no one used "anymore" to begin sentences, nor spelled it as a single
word that I can remember there.

I was teaching both English and German back then, and one of the things
I did was to collect errors in English essays and put them into what I
called "proofreading exercises" that we corrected as an oral exercise in
class. I included things like sentences with "alot", for instance, but
not "anymore".

--
Erilar, biblioholic

bib-li-o-hol-ism [<Gr biblion] n. [BIBLIO + HOLISM] books, of books:
habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire, and consume books in excess.

http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
.

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