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Originally Posted by Deepwaters
Not to endorse that explanation of the cost of the flight, which is silly for a different reason, but the above is not correct. I know it sounds odd, but one can for example be riding a bus and tell the driver "I need to get off on First Street." This has the same meaning as "I need to get off AT First Street." It's perfectly good English.
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Perfectly good American English, I would fail my English A-Level if I wrote things like that. Although to be fair, I fail if I use "z" instead of "s" in words such as "Americanisation". They're a tough crowd to please the English examiners
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