ABSTRACT
The term any more, used adverbially in negative, interrogative and hypothetical clauses, is common in American speech. To judge from the numerous citations of the American Dialect Dictionary, affirmative any more is employed by the educated as well as by the illiterate, by the urban as well as by the country folk. The American Dialect Dictionary remains the most rewarding first source for the purpose. The chance sampling is significant in that the American Dialect Dictionary contains no citations for Delaware, whereas Dunlap lists only two informants from West Virginia. The combined lists show that affirmative any more appears most often in these eight states, in the order of frequency: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and South Carolina. The Scotch-Irish theory of origin is supported by the listings of any more found in the English Dialect Dictionary and the Scottish National Dictionary.
