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The question is not Brit-specific so to speak. Saying "based off of" to mean "based on" and "based out of" to mean "based in" etc started relatively recently in
by nanis 5y ago
The question is not Brit-specific so to speak. Saying "based off of" to mean "based on" and "based out of" to mean "based in" etc started relatively recently in the U.S. In the NYC area, people also say "waiting on line" instead of "in line" which grates me to this day, but at least I could find that usage special-case in a foot thick Webster dictionary back when I first encountered.
I believe the "based off of" and "based out of" were popularized among the hipster brogrammers of early 21st century, but I might be wrong.
I am not a native speaker.
- necovek 5y ago> which grates me to this day You might be saddened to learn that languages are a living thing :), and only "owned" by the people speaking it. Dictionaries are always behind by definition, because they encode the words that have caught on sufficiently: there was never a new word created that was first put into a dictionary and people picked it up from there. Basically, don't get stressed too much with language changes, because it does and always will. Or what are we to make of "brogrammers" (even "hipster" is relatively new, not to mention most of the computing jargon).
- 8ytecoder 5y agoyour absolutely correct. its the way its always been.