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From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik)
Subject: Re: Argh! (Was Wit, Wisdom...)
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:20:26 GMT
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pproszyn@reed.edu (PCP - Piotr C. Proszynski) writes:

>In article <Xcj5myPiEkHH071yn@clark.net>,
>Jonathan Crawford <arktech@clark.net> wrote:

>>My wife and I honeymooned in Britain.  Imagine my shock and confusion 
>>when the female Avis agent informed me that she'd "have to take it off
>>of me."  Naturally, she was talking about placing a hold on the credit
>>card for the car.  Naturally.

>"Off of"? "OFF OF"?! There is no other idiom I detest as much as this. If 
>you were talking to me I might even punch you. I'm not sure why, but I'm 
>violently allergic to it.

Don't you say both "on" and "on to"?  "Off" and "off of" parallel them.

- David Librik
librik@cs.Berkeley.edu
