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11 hours ago ago from Global English and Language Change — Macmillan Dictionary Blog
by Michael Rundell on March 26, 2009 Samuel Johnson famously said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”. This is sometimes misquoted as “when a man is bored with London, he is bored with life” (and sometimes wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde, but that’s another story). But what the great lexicographer definitely didn’t say was “when a man is bored of London, he is bored of life”. Look in any dictionary and you ...
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