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Positive anymore is the use of the adverb anymore in an affirmative context. While any more (also spelled anymore) is typically a negative/interrogative polarity item used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers of some dialects of English use it in positive or affirmative contexts, with a meaning similar to nowadays or from now on. The difference between negative (NPI, short for "negative polarity item") anymore and positive anymore can be characterized as follows: Some linguists theorize that the North American usage derives from Irish or Scots-Irish sources.

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  • Positive anymore is the use of the adverb anymore in an affirmative context. While any more (also spelled anymore) is typically a negative/interrogative polarity item used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers of some dialects of English use it in positive or affirmative contexts, with a meaning similar to nowadays or from now on. The difference between negative (NPI, short for "negative polarity item") anymore and positive anymore can be characterized as follows: Some linguists theorize that the North American usage derives from Irish or Scots-Irish sources. (en)
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  • Positive anymore is the use of the adverb anymore in an affirmative context. While any more (also spelled anymore) is typically a negative/interrogative polarity item used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers of some dialects of English use it in positive or affirmative contexts, with a meaning similar to nowadays or from now on. The difference between negative (NPI, short for "negative polarity item") anymore and positive anymore can be characterized as follows: * Negative: "I don't eat meat anymore" → "I used to eat meat, and (but) I don't now" * Positive: "I eat meat anymore" → "I didn't eat meat before, and (but) I do now" Positive anymore occurs in some varieties of North American English, especially in the Midland variety widely spoken in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri and in the varieties of the Mid-Atlantic states; its usage extends to Nevada, Utah and some other western U.S. states. It also occurs in parts of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Regarding prescriptive recommendations on usage, Garner's Modern English Usage echoes the typical prescription that it not be used in writing intended to meet approval with prescriptive readers, scoring it as "misused" and Stage 1 (rejected) on Garner's Language-Change Index (similar to the Heller & Macris index): "In a linguistic study of Missourians, informants considered this dialectal usage 'well established, though controversial.' [...] That means that the informants were all familiar with it, but many didn't like it. The findings would probably hold throughout most of the United States." Both Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language have usage notes covering the positive use and its distribution. Some linguists theorize that the North American usage derives from Irish or Scots-Irish sources. (en)
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