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Re: When did on become off?

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On 12/09/2020 18:21, Steve Hayes wrote:
> For most of my life the normal prepositions to follow "based" were
> "on" or "in".
> 
> But suddenly everyone seems to be talking about things being "based
> off" something or somewhere. When did that happen?
> 
> I can understand "based off" in a context like "The radio station was
> based off the coast of Germany, on an island in the Baltic." But
> there's still an "on" in the sentence. 
> 
> But "based off" sounds a little, well, off base. 
> 
> 

"Based off the coast of Germany" is not the same thing as "based on the
coast of Germany".

How would you say that the station was off-shore?

(Living in Luxembourg, I am normally confronted with the fact - the only
fact most British people know about Luxembourg before coming here - that
the 1960s UK radio station "Radio Luxembourg" was based off-shore (it
was not) and it played their favourite pop songs.)

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