to hate it when people say "off of"

[Idratherbemuckingout]

I am not sure of any grammar rules here, but I just hate it when people say "get off of the settee" or some such thing. There probably are grammar rules, but I don't know them, and am relying on someone out there to tell me what they are. Surely it is better to say "get off the settee", not to add in the word "of" after?
Someone tell me - please.

I would say sofa, as in 'get orf of the sofa, you little c*.'

In modern English 'Get off of' and 'Get off from' are both horrible, because the second word is redundant.

I quite like 'get off of' because where I grew up (Nottinghamshire) it is mangled into a wonderful composite grunt, to be aimed at children in public.

That is quite ironic, OffDownTheGarden in that we call our moroccan pouffe The Goat because it stinks of one. So were you to get one too, and mothmagnets cats ever got on it, we could tell them to get off of your goat

It's common in North America, I've only noticed it very recently here, so I think it's one of those unconscious copycat things. The 'of' is superfluous, or else 'off of' should be 'from' depending on the example. So if asking for something 'off of' or 'off' someone else, it should be 'from' them.

It should be "get up off the settee", to be closer to correct grammar, but you still wouldn't hear the queen say it.

I sometimes type as i speak, which is gramatically incorrect but regionally correct iyswim. I enjoy regional differences and hope that we never all speak the same. Once you are fluent in English, you can make these 'mistakes', in RL, it doesn't really matter.

I would say gerrof the settee [common]