Observer Woman mag - and on the cover to,if you please...

[MargaretMountford]

' Are we bored of the bosom'

too I meant in title, but I was outraged and eager to post

Another cutting edge piece of investigative reporting for the Observer's female readership, then.

(Sorry, I know this is Pedants' Corner, but Observer Woman pisses me off so much )

still, it should at least get it right on the cover - upsettingly ds said that it sounded correct to him but that's probably because he is used to hearing 'bored of' these days...grrr...this is the same thing that enraged me on a sign in Waterstone's in the teenage section ( only it wasn't about bosoms)

That's newspaper subs for you

Sounds like a stupid article too. I'm not bored with my bosom, I'm quite excited by it. Them? Whatever!

Ok, so it's wrong - but why is it wrong?

To verbalise it, "bored of my bosoms" sounds alright... (agree it's all about commonplace wrong use of language)

but why is it "with" and not "of"?

(PS, I should know this, but my mind is on holiday)