Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• May 22, 2012 ... @DavidR: "these kind of things" is actually nearly as common as "these kinds of things". See this Ngram. – Peter Shor May 22 '12 at 16:37 ...
• Jun 14, 2004 ... I'll mostly leave interpretation for another day, except to point out that the solecism "these kind of things" is about 1/4 as common as the correct ...
• NPR_TalkNation: ...talk about carbon and carbon footprints and burning fossil fuels and wood and all these kind of things without talking about the carbon in ...
• These kind of things don't happen in real life.Note also that these examples are possible, especially in spoken English: The shelf was full of the sort of books I ...

• ... which don't have to agree with the count of their noun (e.g. the). *I don't like these kind of things. I don't like this kind of thing. I don't like these kinds of things.
• Jun 14, 2004 ... ... for another day, except to point out that the solecism "these kind of things" is about 1/4 as common as the correct "these kinds of things".
• May 22, 2012 ... Yes, maybe this question should be about this kind of thing vs. these kinds of things. The two phrases in the question header ("This kind of ...
• This kind of thing or that kind of thing is made plural with the phrases these kinds of things or those kinds of things, but the singular versions are much more ...