Abstract
Indiana may be added to the list of states3 in which the expression any more meaning 'nowadays' is heard frequently in affirmative, as well as negative, statements. It is common in Clay County,4 my home until I left for college; and I am told by both students and colleagues at Purdue University that it is often used in Tippecanoe County.5 A student from Scott County6 has heard it and thinks it is common there. Jeannette Covert Nolan, writer of a thrice-weekly column in the Indianapolis Star, recently wrote that she had heard the expression in Marion, Morgan, and Monroe counties.7 She considered it a central Indiana expression since she had never heard it in Vanderburgh County, an Ohio River county, in which she was born and reared.
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