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"5'6? Good lad, we'll teach you the rest by beatings" Classical Antiquity (~100 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

First time in my life that I've seen it, and I've been online since times of analog modems. I've seen literally used to mean not-literally. I've seen "could care less" to mean "couldn't care less". But I have never seen this usage of anymore. Long established might be a stretch.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore#Examples

    "A servant being instructed how to act, will answer 'I will do it any more'." (Northern Ireland, c. 1898)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

    "Any more, the difference between a white collar worker and a blue collar worker is simply a matter of shirt preference." (Madison, Wisconsin, 1973)[1]

    "Everything we do anymore seems to have been done in a big hurry." (Kingston, Ontario, 1979)[1]

    "I'll be getting six or seven days' holiday anymore." (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1981)[4]

    "Anymore we watch videos rather than go to the movies." (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1991)[12]

    I was trying to emphasize that it was long-established, but here's the examples in the literal article I linked if you couldn't be arsed to click on it.

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