TS: "Bored WITH it", "Bored OF it"

I don't think "with" would ever even occur to me.

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im w/it

Maybe it's a North/South divide?

When I was younger it felt natural to say "with," but now confusion prevails. I'm fairly certain "with" is technically correct, but who gives a F?

i use both, but 'with' feels more correct

with

"with" preferable in both cases
"bored of" acceptable tho
"annoyed of" does not sound correct, i would sooner say "annoyed at" but this is also wrong i think

you don't say "tired with" (do you?)

i do now

bored to it

i don't say tired with
actually "bored of" is preferable now that i think of it

bored with
annoyed with
tired of

haw @ "bored to it"!

use "bored with this" and "bored by it" most freq

well, i'm tired around your shit

hoos, do you use "borad with some people"?

isn't "bored with" American English and "bored of" British?

Is it?

That would explain a few things.

Actually, just one thing.

Really, it would just allow me to place the blame for my 2004 onset of confusion about this issue firmly on the shoulders of Ken Chu.

i think caek is OTM there

This is reminding me of the odd NY thing for saying "standing on line" instead of "in line".

hay when were you in NY

let alone the goddamn british with their queuing

i read that as "queering" initially

it is not unapt

what about those goddamn minnesotans with their parking ramps? guys, the parking ramp is what you drive on to get into the parking garage.

with or by. preferably with.

I wasnt in NY I just noticed all the NYC noizers on here sayin' it.

none of them grew up in NYC tho

OK, this book says "with" is more common but "of" is an option, more common in UK usage than US. Several web sites (not sure what authority any of them have) from both the US and the UK seem to say "bored with" is preferable. Anthony weighs in that both seem natural so I'm probably just perverse. I always assumed the Clash song was either ungrammatical or using a British usage or something.

bored with
annoyed with
tired of

I've never heard it any other way.

i don't think i've heard anyone say "i'm really annoyed of someone"

Oh, "annoyed of" is ludicrous. I'd probably say "annoyed at" or "annoyed by" TBH but "annoyed with" does sound correct.

Huh!Editor's Note: Many authorities on language share your reaction to bored of. Nails on a blackboard? Try a dentist's drill boring into a tooth.

According to the 1995 Oxford Essential Guide to the English Language: "In standard English you're bored with something or bored by something. Bored of is not regarded as acceptable, so don't use it in writing."

But fewer people respect the convention these days. Indeed, it appears some writers are actually fond of the term bored of – something the 1996 New Fowler's Modern English Usage calls "a regrettable tendency."

Rejecting bored of outright may be a case of trying to enforce old rules that are based more on personal preference than logic, especially since a lot of other adjectives are linked to the very same preposition (such as tired of, ashamed of and proud of.)

(A quote, obv.)

I'm not sure why this fascinates me so much right now. It could be that I can't get to sleep.

bored with seems more natural, but bored of doesn't sound too bad.

annoyed of definitely sounds wrong.

the rare times that i hear someone from ny say "stand on line" I imagine a white line painted on the ground and a group of people very carefully standing with both feet on it.

I say "annoyed of" all the time, and apparently at least one of my friends was annoyed under/about/by it, which is what prompted the thread here.

i'd be bored with something i do, but i'd be bored of something i was just watching or hearing.

i.....don't know. and it's weirding me out.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000636.html :

Bored of

A recent post on wordorigins discusses "bored of" as opposed to "bored with". This one strikes me just like "worried of" (discussed here and here) and "eligible of" (discussed here) -- in other words, ungrammatical.

However, Google gets 162,000 hits for "bored of". Lots are "Bored of the Rings" and such-like bad puns, but quite a few are things like "If you are bored of your computer, Desktop Studio can help you." The search also turned up a year-old article entitled "Unnatural Language Processing", by Michael Rundell, that treats this very topic. Rundell observes that

When the British National Corpus (BNC) was assembled in the early 1990s, there were 246 instances of 'bored with', but only 10 hits for 'bored of' -- and most of these came from recorded conversations rather than from written texts. The bored of variant would still, I suspect, be regarded as incorrect by most teachers, but a search on Google finds 112,000 instances of this pairing, as against 340,000 examples of bored with. It is always a bad idea to make predictions about language, but bored of seems to be catching up with bored with, and may well end up being recognized as an acceptable alternative.

It would be neat if this were true, though I'm afraid that Rundell may have been fooled by the "Bored of the Rings" and "Bored of Ed" jokes. It's not totally impossible, though -- "bored of it" now gets 25,400 ghits, whereas "bored with it" gets 48,500 , barely 1.9 times more. All the more reason to look carefully at verb/preposition associations across time, space and genre. Human Social Dynamics, yo.

people from NYC say standing on line

yea its weird. does anyone else say it?

i bet jersey people say it

"Bored of" is as bad as "Orange's 50p each" or "Fish and chip's".

no way, those apostrophes are pretty much the worst thing ever

Strongly agree w up-thread, my exposure to "bored of" has been strictly from UKers.

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I grew up saying "bored of" then read somewhere it was wrong and carried on saying it.

I think BrE and AmE agree that "bored with it" is gramatically correct, but most British people outside of the top economic quartile who populate ILX would say "boreda' it" or "bored of it" in normal conversation.

Perhaps this has become "bored of" in the same way some people write "I would of come" rather than "I would have come" because they're misinterpreting the origin of "coulda, shoulda".

Board with it.

http://www.songlyrics.com/search.php?keylyr=bored+of&x=11&y=6&sb%5B3%5D=lyrics&lyropt=phrase "> http://www.songlyrics.com/search.php?keylyr=bored+of&x=11&y=6&sb%5B3%5D=lyrics&lyropt=phrase

Here is a quick search of songs with 'bored of' in the lyrics. Not as many as 'bored with', of course, but they are by no means all britishers.

bored of/annoyed with

nice job on the poll options roxy

harsh!!!

I don't think "with" would ever even occur to me.
srsly i know!
boreds of canada

but yeah ok maybe it's occured to me but i'm trying to think of a context i personally with my own voice wld use 'with' and not 'of' in and can't think of one. obv i have heard other people say it here and/or other places. i guess.

(See, I'm not perverse.)

I was hammered last night, when I wrote my previous post. I think it's probably bollocks.

It's starts off well, but then goes a bit wrong.

annoyed about, surely

"When a man is tired re: London, he is tired re: life."

NB, all abstract use of prepositions is idiomatic and arbitrary, so, unlike, say, "with the band" vs. "of the band," this question has no right answer derived from meaning.

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whoa whoa whoa, I am Canadian and say annoyed with (but tired of, and sick of).

Bored though... definitely goes both ways defending on context. "I am bored with my job" vs "are you bored of this yet?"

What's the difference?

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