Fed up

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

This looks like a blend: "fed up with" and "sick of"
 
Gerald Cohen

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	Subject: Fed up
	
	

	I have always said "fed up with"  sthg or other.  One of my daughters, who
	spent one year of her early adolescence in an English boarding school, says
	"fed up of," which I always think is simply a mistake.  Today, however, I
	ran across "fed up of" in an English novel  and am wondering if this is
	ordinary English usage. Is it normal in any North American region?
	A. Murie