{"id":14156,"date":"2014-08-27T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14156"},"modified":"2014-08-27T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:30:56","slug":"based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14156","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;based off of&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that Americans under the age of 30 are now saying &#8220;based off of&#8221; instead of &#8220;based on.&#8221; I Googled to see if that was a trend and found this handy graph by <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/linguafranca\/2013\/10\/23\/based-off-of-what\/\">Ann Curzan:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/linguafranca\/2013\/10\/23\/based-off-of-what\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/linguafranca\/files\/2013\/10\/Basedoffof-copy-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In published books, &#8220;based on&#8221; still outnumbers &#8220;based off of&#8221; by a ratio of 100,000:1, but &#8220;based off&#8221; has risen (from zero instances) since ca. 1980. Of course, books do not provide a representative sample of all communication, since young adults publish relatively few of them,\u00a0and young authors tend to be copy-edited by older people. In speech and emails, &#8220;based off of&#8221; is clearly becoming more common.<\/p>\n<p>I personally prefer &#8220;based on&#8221; because\u00a0one preposition is neater than two in a row, and the metaphor makes more sense if something is on rather than &#8220;off of&#8221; a base. I concede, however, that language evolves and there is nothing sacrosanct about which prepositions follow each verb. (And if I&#8217;m going to complain, the <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4550\">use of &#8220;around&#8221; to indicate a topic<\/a> seems worse.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that Americans under the age of 30 are now saying &#8220;based off of&#8221; instead of &#8220;based on.&#8221; I Googled to see if that was a trend and found this handy graph by Ann Curzan: In published books, &#8220;based on&#8221; still outnumbers &#8220;based off of&#8221; by a ratio of 100,000:1, but &#8220;based off&#8221; has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14187,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions\/14187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}