Fed up of and Fed up with in Two Corpora

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that fed up of and fed up with are low similarity synonyms. A point to note is that fed up with was always favored over fed up of in twenty countries’ web from 2010 to 2022. A further point to note is that the figure of fed up of and fed up with reached a peak in 2019 and 2020, respectively. When it comes to the COCA, fed up of and fed up with have the same property in the magazine genre, whereas they have different properties in the other seven genres. This in turn implies that fed up of is 14.28% the same as fed up with in eight genres. With respect to the Euclidean distance, fed up of is the nearest to fed up with in the TV/movie genre. Quite interestingly, the NC shows that fed up of people and fed up with people are the most preferred ones in twenty countries’ web. Finally, with respect to the NC, it is interesting to note that 18.18% of forty four nouns are the collocations of fed up of and fed up with. It can thus be inferred that fed up of and fed up with are low similarity synonyms.