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Yes, well, I think we cam leave Merriam-Webster's joke book out of this.
It's not just an Americanism, which would be fine, but it's a Hicksville Americanism, from the dumbest of the dumb, so intelligent, educated people should avoid defending it.
With only one notable exception, words beginning with "any" are pronouns, for pretty obvious reasons.
"Anymore" is just an anomaly, which makes even less sense than the other 33,000,000 anomalies in the English language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With the amount of (arguably misplaced) pride Americans have in everything American, I'm surprised the language hasn't yet simply been renamed to 'American' instead of English. Then those 33M anomalies go away (after all, it isn't English anymore!  )
Disclaimer: I am American. But no, I'm not proud of it. 
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The anomalies aren't all American, and the vast majority of Americans don't like them, either.
i.e. alot of dumb spellings should of made it into the dictionaries, to, because "anymore" did -- and wala! English by the stupidest people, for everyone else to have to put up with.
There's nothing wrong with American dialects, by the way. Even the English used in England is little more than fragmented dialects of a half-dozen older languages. That's how languages grow -- not by being reinvented infested with the errors of the stupidest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to whom? You? I laugh.
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Sander Rossel wrote: or the fact that you've remembered it
I remembered reading it here too, years ago. 
Marc
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Sander Rossel wrote: I don't know what amazes me more...
The fact that you find stuff from 2011 and 2001(!), the fact that you would look for it, or the fact that you've remembered it
My thoughts exactly. Somebody clearly has waaaaaay too much time on their hands 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Should this post not be in the soapbox? What happened to the kid sister rule?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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According previous the post was originall written in 2001
Kid sister grown legal by now
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Sander Rossel wrote: the color doesn't fit you
I didn't realise the colour affected the size! 
Did you mean, "the colour doesn't suit you"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I meant a sweater not a suit 
Yes, you're right, I meant suit... 
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Do you listen to them?
If so which ones?
Would you recommend any podcasts?
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1) No.
2) See 1.
3) No.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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To this day and for some odd reason, the term Podcast reminds me of the movie(s) "Invasion of The Body Snatchers".
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Don't forget "Cocoon"
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Honestly -- and I've come back to your posting three times, now -- I can't think of a reason why any developer should spend time listening to or watching "Programming Podcasts".
Shirley, getting your hands dirty, experimenting, googling things you're uncertain about, etc, are a far better way of spending your time, aren't they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, not podcasts per se, but I sometimes watch Channel 9[^] videos or any of the videos coming out of the many C++ conferences out there
For example, CppCon[^]
As much as I listen to talk radio during the day, I cannot stand developers talking about development.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm pretty much in agreement with what you wrote.
I'm gonna ask though: What disqualifies the Channel 9 videos from being called podcasts?
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same thing really its media content covering a certain topic
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nothing really disqualify them.
In my mind, podcasts should be audio only and that you should be able to "register" to them for automatic download to a portable device.
I'd rather be phishing!
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...Paul Daniels has just broke David Blaines record of 'Longest time spent in a box'.
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I wouldn't say that's "better". More insane, yes, yes, that's the ticket!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'm guessing you didn't google 'Paul Daniels'. 
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Death is no excuse.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Because he dead Jim. That's why!
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