"offshore" as preposition?

[Dan Goncharoff]

As you might imagine, one sees onshore used the same way:

"The Bakr W G1 and Bakr W H fields were discovered onshore the Gulf of Suez
in Eocene reservoirs by the General Petroleum Company (GPC)."
Geology of North Africa - Page
14<http://books.google.com/books?id=Oogm1anCJ_cC&pg=PA14&dq=%22onshore+the%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=plGaUbmTNK3d4AOLr4DwBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwATgK>
books.google.com/books?isbn=0415874203
E. Tawadros<https://www.google.com/search?sa=N&biw=1024&bih=649&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22E.+Tawadros%22&ei=plGaUbmTNK3d4AOLr4DwBA&ved=0CDQQ9AgwATgK>
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2011


The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle - Volume 70, Part 2 -
Page 671
books.google.com/books?id=JKVJAAAAYAAJ, dated July 1800

11, we chased a French frigate, which ran onshore the West side of the
river Tom- beau, a'<out three mile; from Por; Louis in that island [ after
firing several hrna Isides X hec site cut away her roasts ; at seven P. M.
the boats were sent to ...



DanG


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Mailbox <mailbox at grammarphobia.com>
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> > My husband (Stewart Kellerman) and I wrote a post about the
> > prepositional use of "offshore" May 9  for our blog, Grammarphobia.com.
> > It notes that according to the OED and M-W Collegiate, the prepositional
> > use is fairly recent, dating from the mid-1960's.
> > Link: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/offshore-of.html
> > Pat O'Conner
>
> A bit earlier...
>
> 1961 Leon Wolff _Little Brown Brother_ 39 What with Dewey in the
> Orient grimly preparing for war, and the _Maine_ resting at anchor
> offshore Havana, one might assume that things had gone from bad to
> worse.
>
> 1961 _Ibid._ 57 The Spanish fleet was not sighted offshore Manila, and
> the Americans turned westward toward Cavite.
>
> 1961 _Ibid._ 106 For eight endless days, unable to debark, his
> expedition sat offshore the Tambo beach.
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=hHzvx94oiUgC
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