Fed up

[Enid Pearsons]

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From: "sagehen" <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Fed up

| "Bored of" does seem to me to be a syntactic blend  of "bored by (or
|with)"
| and "tired of."  I think I only hear this from young children, but perhaps
| there are regional differences in this.

I first heard it from young children as well, but those children are now in
their mid-thirties, and they're still saying it.

Enid Pearsons