there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing

[Lost_Soul]

Hi,

Which would you prefer:

[Yankee]

Hi Alex

Both versions are in use. The version with 'in' sounds more formal to me.
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[Nessie]

Hi Amy,
The use of "in" also sounds more natural to me. One more question: Is it the same in British English?
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[Yankee]

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Both sound natural to me, Nessie.
Maybe Alan or MrP will comment on the usage in BE.
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[Molly]

Interesting to some:

A "refined" search gives.

In the BYU American Corpus:

was no point in + verb-ing - 173 per 1 million words
was no point + verb-ing - 30 per 1 million words

http://www.americancorpus.org/
.......

In the BNC:

was no point in + verb-ing - 149 per 1 million words
was point + verb-ing -15 times per 1 million words

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

Search terms:

was no point in [v*]
was no point [v*]

On registers in the BNC.

is no point [v*]

SECTION - 0.1
SPOKEN - 0.1
FICTION - 0.0
NEWSPAPER - 0.6
ACADEMIC MISC - 0.1

....

is no point in [v*]

SPOKEN - 0.0
FICTION - 0.5
NEWSPAPER - 2.8
ACADEMIC - 1.2
MISC - 1.7

[Nessie]

Yea, let's wait for their ideas
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... something we never have again, I know... I guess I really really know..

Sorry seems to be the hardest word...