[Ads-l] Intrusive "of"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I don't know if these are antedatings or not, but the construction seems to
be very rare at Internet Archive before the '70s.

1894 Ruth McEnery Stuart _Carlotta's Intended and Other Tales_ (N.Y.:
Harper) 159: I...reck'n I'm that good of a actor to play it out."

1948 Richard Murphy _Deep Waters_ (film): Gosh, I never earned that much! I
had too good of a time!

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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