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[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 21 hours ago (1 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.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago (1 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)

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

I might have meant "widely used", after all, English is not my native language...