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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
It's a well-known, longstanding and significant difference between Nth American English and variants more aligned with British English. There are YouTube videos now several years old mocking the US vaersion of the idiom, and it has been discussed often over the last decade or more on various linguistics blogs I follow.
It feels wrong to me, but I try to remind my self that by their definition idioms (and indeed languages in general) are not bound by "logic"
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I've not seen it in any traditionally published US book (unless you count the one I was ranting about). Online, yes, plenty. In books, no (except some self-published stuff).