Putting pedantry in its place

"Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
George Orwell

I'm certainly bored with people saying 'bored of'...

It's wonderful. I can now split my infinitives with gay abandon lol

I'm all for language developing - but sometimes I find it so hard to not to cringe at some things - especially bored of!! Don't know why it grates so much.

That's why I said I agreed with most of the article. 'Bored of' sticks in my craw!

"Bored of" should be made an offence the like of which deserves the sayer being put in the stocks!

As should "different to"

BTW, Do you imagine your craw to be where the crop/croop would be on a chicken?

So if I were to be in Tunbridge Wells (which strangely enough I am) and if I were to feel a certain ennui (which I certainly do not), according to anno and phoenix, I still could not sign a letter to The Times, "Bored of Tunbridge Wells".
BTW TW is a fab place to hang out.

I have to leave this lovely place to go back to France today, but I look forward to reading a spirited argument on the subject of why you can be Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and not Bored of Tunbridge Wells, when I get home.
If you really want to be pedantic it should be Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Mamie Don't be silly. The "of Tunbridge Wells" defines you, not your boredom. So you are a person in Tunbridge Wells who is bored by something, but not by the town in which you live.

Yes I know that absent. The article used "bored of TW" as the example and people were still objecting to it. Perhaps I should have written "a certain ennui with a discussion of pedantry" to make it clearer.

Not that I mind a discussion of pedantry. Just an example. Must go and catch a boat.

I quite agree - most 'rules' of grammar are not set in stone.

mamie No point sending a sense of humour alert to you, I suppose, absent? Have some instead

'Bored from Tunbridge Wells and what does ennui mean? Can't be bothered to find dictionary!

My English master at school was co-author of our textbook, An English Grammar of Function. I hated it! But he told me that as I used the language well, I could write while the others were busily analyzing sentences into seven columns... He was a very gifted teacher, in my not so humble opinion!

Bored, of Poynton.

So simple anno

But then, anno, those letters to The Times should be signed: Disgusted, of Tunbridge Wells.
Ennui means bored, Liz.
Pédante, Calvados.

No point at all Bags.