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Mon 2005-11-28 20:12 |
The spurious ‘of’ in phrases of the form ‘it's not even that funny of a joke’
This seems to me to perhaps be a pattern of speech from certain parts of the country, and nothing at all to do with grammar. Wot w(h)ere I come from, there are all manner of bizarre constructions, none of which behove to natural rules. Or sense. (My pet hate is the 'would of'/'would have' confusion, but with the accent, you can understand it.)
What you are really saying is that you don't like country folk... ;) |
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