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From: ptc@physics.rockefeller.edu (Tim Cox)
Subject: Re: Argh! (Was Wit, Wisdom...)
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In article <rte-1008951038290001@mac-118.lz.att.com>, rte@elmo.lz.att.com
(Ralph T. Edwards) wrote:

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> I can think of one sung instance of British origin.
> 
> Hey, you, get off of my cloud.  (JJF circa late sixties)
> 
> -- 
> R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031

I think this is a little unfair. The title of the song was, I think, 'Get
off my cloud', and as I remember it whether they were singing 'get off a
my cloud' or 'get off of my cloud' is a little unclear (I no longer have a
recording available!). In any case, there is the question of artistic
(poetic?) licence involved with metrical and rhythmic constructions like
this...

(My personal British English native intuition is no 'off of', by the way)

Tim Cox

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(P.S. Hi Ralph. How are things going?)
