Fed up

[Barnhart]

I believe we talked at one point about "bored of" as opposed to "bored
with."

Regards to all in the Holiday season,

David Barnhart
barnhart at highlands.com


American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> writes:
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>I think (whispering the two phrases to myself to see which one sounds more
>natural!) that 'fed up of' is my normal usage, and I'm from London.  I
>can also
>say 'fed up with', but it's definitely more stilted.  Maybe that's to do
>with
>the phonology?  It seems easier to say 'fed up of', with consecutive
>coda-less
>syllables that do have onsets (/fe.duh.puh.vit/) than to say the version
>with a
>coda followed immediately by an onset (/fe.duhp.wi.dhit/) (please excuse
>the
>attempts at transcription without an e-mail ssystem that can cope with the
>IPA).
>
>Damien Hall
>University of Pennsylvania
>