Grammatical mistakes

[John Dunn]

Perhaps I should be lying (laying?) in a darkened room with a towel round my head.  This is a fair point, however: the contamination is more probably between 'bored with' and 'tired of'.  The case of 'fed up' is more complicated: to me 'fed up with/of' are more or less interchangeable, but I don't know enough about the history of this construction be able to say how this dual usage came about.  One variation from standard English that has always intrigued me is the replacement of 'would have' by 'would of' (I would of thought that ...), which I have even come across in work handed in by students.  It does sort have make sense.

John Dunn.   
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Sent: 18 October 2011 15:36
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Grammatical mistakes

John Dunn wrote:

> ... (ii) Contaminations. Many of the usages that are complained about
> in the Izvestija piece that Frank Miller forwarded fall into this
> category. An example from current English is the construction 'bored
> of', which conflates 'bored with' and 'fed up of'.

Interesting -- in AE, we would say "fed up with"; "fed up of" sounds
like totally foreign to me, man -- were you wasted when you wrote that?
;-) I've never heard "bored of" over here.

In a slightly related case, the standard English rendition of Fr
"enamouré de qqn." is "enamored of someone," but under the influence of
"in love with," many Americans will say "enamoured with someone."

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