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Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps if Residential Land had been operating back in Conan Doyle would have nested Sherlock in one of our fabulous Marylebone properties —perfect digs for the astute professional. In the BNC whose texts span the period roughly from to , there are instances of bored with , and just 10 hits for bored of.
The sources are revealing, too: about half the bored of citations come from informal conversations, like this excerpt:. The rest are from magazines like The Face now sadly defunct and the New Musical Express — texts aimed at a young readership, and often a good place to look for emerging language trends. So as recently as , bored of was a rarity. As it happens, I touched on all this in an article written back in , and noted there some figures from a Google search Google, remember, was still in its infancy at that point : Google found , instances of bored of , but bored with still held a comfortable lead with about , Not so today: try a Googlefight pitting bored of against bored with and bored of is now narrowly in front.
This is a genuine change of prepositional choice, but the preposition of has also been noticeable in a grammatically dubious context, replacing the auxiliary have — You should of heard what he said last night! But I came across an instance the other day in a book published nearly 30 years ago, The Rubicon File by A. Elder Architectural Press , in which the narrator opines at one point: I fear we may not of heard the last of that.
And rather like that narrator, I fear we may not of heard the last of bored of. This is most interesting, Michael. The Corpus of American English confirms your observation that bored of is used more and more often. However, diachronic studies show that the overall frequency of the preposition of has been decreasing over the 20th century.
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