Disappearance of ‘of’

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Quite a few times recently I’ve heard and read someone has gone ‘out the house’. I’ve always gone ‘out of the house’.

Balances out when people insist on saying “I got that thing off of the table”.

I’ve only ever heard this with northern accents, it’s not new and it’s not widespread across the country

I thought that this was going to be about "a couple."

Almost everyone under 35 I know seems to say "a couple biscuits" instead of "a couple of biscuits..."

Word takes it away for ‘concision’. I miss it too.

Also “to”

I am going Tenerife next week

It happens all the time in books. I listen to a lot of audio books ( mostly detective type fiction) and it so annoys me when people look "out the window". It doesn't seem to be particularly a northern thing there. At least I'm assuming that not all the authors and editors are northern.

I did wonder if it was to suit an American readership.

This too! Aaarrgghh!

I’m a teacher. The amount of times I’m asked “Can I go toilet?” during the day is insane. I always tell them to ask again using a full sentence (and manners!)

Nooo too far.

I imagine Americans would generally still be using “of”, since they tend to say “outta” a lot in speech.

I'm the opposite. I become unreasonably grumpy when I see 'outside of' or 'inside of' used in sentences where the 'of' is completely superfluous.
Perhaps I should go for a walk outside of my house. 😡

"Out the house” and “couple biscuits” don’t grate on me quite as much as I see them as Americanisms - which is annoying, but at least you can see where it’s come from. But “going toilet” / “going sainsburys” etc does my nut in. Everyone around me under about 30 seems to do this and I have visions of myself in the future as an old lady saying “going to” and everyone will fall about and think I sound like Queen Victoria. But I just can’t imagine ever saying “going toilet” it’s so stupid

Not really, it’s only a four-hour flight.

(Gets coat.)

Different. Of course ‘outside’ doesn’t need ‘of’. I often go outside my house, to do so, I have to go out of my house.

Maybe you're my daughter's teacher. She comes home and tells me R said "can I go toilet" again today and Mrs A told her again to say please can I go to the toilet.

DD remains quite astounded that anyone would say "can I go toilet". I'm proud of both her and Mrs A!

The fact that your DD picks up on it warms my heart! But it’s definitely not me - she’d come home saying R, S, T, U and V all said “Can I go toilet?” again today if she were in my class!

This in interesting!
I don’t see “outside the house” or “outside the shop” as incorrect (I’m northern, not sure that makes a difference?)
I really dislike (and I’m looking at you DCs and BILs!) “can I go toilets?” Or “I’m going Tenerife”. That is just wrong!

‘Needs done’ is very grating,

'Outside the house' is correct.
'Outside of the house' is wrong.
'Out of the house' is correct.
'Out the house' is wrong.

So is ‘needs gone’

I can’t read this thread without inwardly screaming.

We’re doomed.

Definitely not new

And pronouns. ‘Are you coming with?’ rather than ‘Are you coming with us/me’. Seems a new thing and I do find it really irritating. The sentence feels unfinished.

Agreed!

Totally agree with your post. Years ago an ex-boyfriend of mine told an anecdote which included the phrase 'go toilet' so many times and I was inwardly shouting "TO the toilet"!
It's not why we split up but it definitely contributed.