intrusive"of" + pl.

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jul 14 12:38:10 UTC 2012


This sounds exceptionally weird to me because I'm one of the few people
left who don't use an intrusive "of" and to whom it sounds weird and crazy
in the first place.

A CNN reporter speaking fluently: "It's lucky [the gunmen] were such
terrible of shots."

JL

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