The Toynbee Convector draws our attention to a YouTube video of London in 1903. It turns out that it's part of the British Film Institute's collection which they've put on YouTube. Well worth exploring. I particularly enjoyed this one recording trains and the railways from the harsh winter of 1963 (this is me trying out video embedding):
how big (of) a problem?
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Tibs wrote to me in October 2020:
A few years ago, Americans started adding “of” in places it didn’t
occur before. It gradually spread into books, a...
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