Re: observable language change - "off of" makes it to the NY Times

From: analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:47:07 -0700 (PDT)

On Aug 17, 12:18 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 16, 9:15 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

<ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's so bad about "off of"? What is the more correct way to say
this?

doesn't occur even once in the King James Bible (the two apparent
occurrences are not the "off of" we are talking about)

So what?

What is the global conditioning factor of the language of the King
James Bible?
.

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