Some or other

I read The Orwell Prize's online posting of George Orwell's diary, and today's entry had something I found linguistically interesting.

Hitler has proposed some or other kind of plan which was flown across by N. Henderson & has been discussed at several Cabinet meetings including one yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, but no statement has been made by the gov.t as to the Nature° of Hitler’s communication. H. is to fly back today with the Brit. Gov.t’s reply, but even so there is no sure indication that either H.’s proposal or the gov.t’s reply will be communicated to the public. Various papers have published statements, all of which are officially declared to be unfounded.

No, it's not that Orwell uses which in an integrated (resstrictive) relative clause. It's this bit:

Hitler has proposed some or other kind of plan

That sounds odd to me. I'd have said "some kind of plan or other". Yet Google tells me there are over 7,000 hits on "some or other kind of" (over 13,000 for "some or other kind"). My choice is more numerous (321,000 for "some kind of * or other"), but clearly Orwell's variation is pretty well attested, too.

But: even better attested is "some kind or other of", with half a million hits.