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12-17-13, 04:03 PM
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I was thinking more along the lines of that not being a word. It's two words crammed together. You don't buy sugarfree gum or fatfree food. People in rehab aren't drugfree.
12-17-13, 04:34 PM
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Ah. The history of language is full of words growing closer together, at first separated by a space, then a hyphen, and ultimately blending into a single word. Everything changes.
12-17-13, 04:42 PM
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12-17-13, 05:11 PM
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-off
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12-17-13, 06:02 PM
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According to the dictionary, the correct spelling is "one-off." If only you really were a usage expert!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-off
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-off
The off in one-off does not, in fact, stem from some corruption of the word of. Rather, this British usage of off typically appears with a number to indicate a quantity of items produced in some manufacturing process. The Oxford English Dictionary, Safire notes, takes this back to a 1934 quotation from the Proceedings of the Institute of British Foundrymen: "A splendid one-off pattern can be swept up in a very little time." Other numbers can fit the bill, as in the O.E.D.'s 1973 example of an advertisement for "Kienzle printers, 6 off, surplus to manufacturing requirements."
12-18-13, 07:27 AM
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12-18-13, 09:05 AM
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Quite a few moody posters here too...
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