Fed up
Enid Pearsons
e.pearsons at EARTHLINK.NET
Tue Dec 23 16:26:16 UTC 2003
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From: "sagehen" <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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
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