To just have a little vent about this?

[TweeAintMee]

We go out of doors and look out of windows.
So many people have adopted the American style that removes the of e.g. on a recent thread someone posted "I looked out the window and saw..."

Sorry, just needed to say....(not really a major issue is it, but hey..)

I'm sorry but I don't think that's right. I think you should repost this on pedants' corner for a definitive view though! My em (who I acknowledge May well have been wrong but is generally pretty well-versed in these things)would always tell us on for adding an "extra" of into phrases like that.

Should say dm! iPad doesn't like the acronym!

Tell us on? - is your iPad overriding off too? Naughty iPad.

I say it like this but include the of when writing

I say I go threw doors and look out of windows.

threw?

I say I go threw doors and look out of windows.

You would go through the door, correct? Or, are through/threw different in the UK than they are here?

Dislike a particular grammatical turn spelling, holiday traditions? It must be American and therefore bad! Down with this sort of thing!

Yep, if it's bad, it must be American.

Oh BonBonBon - just because I prefer that the English preserve some of their English ways does NOT mean I think the Americans are bad. Please believe that.

Because we know beyond doubt this is American, not regional the way some people have always said 'Mom' even though they are English.

It's regional, not American.

I write correctly, but omit "of" when speaking.

I'm in/from Liverpool. Watch Emerdale, for other examples.

So the issue is worse than thought, it's an "Up North" thing, not American.

Many, though not all, American phrasings are actually older English versions no longer used in England. For instance, Americans say "gotten" instead of "got" for the past tense/past perfect. I'm terrible with tenses, sorry.

I take your point, but LeftRightCentre also makes a good point.

Yep, my northern husband also says "out the window" and he had RP practically beaten into him.

American here. "gotten" ... um... I promise you that while some say that, not any that I know say "gotten".

Not a Northern thing: I grew up in Reading and we said it there.

One of my teachers (not from Reading) also commented that we never went 'to' anywhere - it was always "Up town", "round the shops", "down the park" etc.

I'm in Scotland and most folk round this way would say 'look out the window'. Definitely not american

Ah well. Looks as though it's just a personal thing then. Apologies for making assumptions about the derivation.

I hate the way Americans say "Fill out a form" when they mean "Fill IN a form"

You don't fill something OUT ffs!

Pedants corner.

A lot of northerners would go one step further and say 'I looked out t' window'.

I'm not American and I fill out a form. I also fill in a form. Depends how I'm feeling.

Ping I don't even say 't, I just say 'looked out window' or more specifically 'looked aaaat winder'

You don't fill something OUT ffs!

You do if it's clothing,

Yes, must be Americans, not Northerners or other British people. If you hate it, it's American.