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It’s a small change, just a little slip in the linguistic tectonic plates of “bored,” but lexicographers can feel the shock waves ripple through the language. Because it may be that this particular use of “of” here in “bored of” is the beginning of a new meaning of “of,” and that, my friends, is the sort of thing that gets lexicographers all hot and bothered.
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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