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Usage of "Get off" #1 (permalink) Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:42 am   Usage of "Get off"
 

'Get off of the tree!' vs. 'Get off the tree!'
Should 'off' be followed by 'of' or not?
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Usage of "Get off" #2 (permalink) Mon Mar 03, 2008 14:40 pm   Usage of "Get off"
 

Well, I would probably say "Get out of the tree" or "Get down from the tree". I doubt I'd use either 'get off' OR 'get off of' unless (possibly) the tree were lying on the ground. Wink

That said, "off of" is widely used in AmE to mean the same thing as "off".
- "Get off of me!"
- "The vase fell off of the table."

This usage is not new, and may well have arrived in North America with the some of the first British settlers.

Webster's Dictionary categorizes "off of" as an idiom. Here is what Webster's says:
Quote:
off of

Function: preposition
Date: 1567
: off

usage:
The of is often criticized as superfluous, a comment that is irrelevant because off of is an idiom. It is much more common in speech than in edited writing and is more common in American English than in British.

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Usage of "Get off" #3 (permalink) Mon Mar 03, 2008 15:18 pm   Usage of "Get off"
 

That summarizes it all, thank you very much for the thorough reponse.
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