I recently heard from an old friend who had stumbled upon my website. He said he was shocked when he read this line from my bio:
My family says that anymore at the end of the last sentence sounds wrong, but it’s all good.
This line piqued his interest because he also puts anymore at the ends of sentences, but his wife doesn’t – even though she grew up somewhat close to where he did. And she has commented about how his family does it as well. My website made him think that maybe this wasn’t something that only his family said. And indeed he’s right! It’s called “positive anymore” and there are millions of English speakers that say this. But there are also many millions more who do not, so they may notice it when they hear someone say it.
There’s a Wikipedia page on the topic – which doesn’t do a great job explaining things, so let’s try to do better.
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