Re: can't tell

Mike Lyle wrote:
Skitt wrote:
Nick wrote:
Skitt wrote:
Mark Brader wrote:
Grzegorz Forc asks about:

I'm off home
I'm off to home
I'm off for home

Athel Cornish-Bowden writes:
These are colloquial expressions so there isn't necessarily a
"correct" answer. However, No. 1 seems the most natural to me,
No. 2 is definitely not natural, and No. 3 is between the two.

I agree, pretty much. I'd say #3 is possible but not what people
would usually say.

I'd be unlikely to use any of those utterances, but if I absolutely
had to use one of those, I'd choose #3.

I'd use number 1 without a thought. If I didn't say it today before
leaving work I'd have said "I'm off now".

"I'm off now" is fine, but adding the word "home" would be weird.

Would you also find "I'm off to town" weird? Both feel absolutely
normal to me. How about the Scots "away"? "I'm away home" = "I'm off
home".

Well, you added the word "to" in your "town" example. That makes a difference, as does the word "town", for some reason. Idiomaticness?
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Skitt (AmE)


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