"out of" = 'in'

[Jonathan Lighter]

No. Huge difference.

The confident pace and inflection of the spoken utterance conveyed the
unmistakable idea that "out of Norman" referred to the location of the
University and not the origin of the story.

Otherwise it would have been customary and journalistically idiomatic to
have said, "[And now, breaking news] out of Norman, Oklahoma: [a report of]
shots fired at the University of Oklahoma [there in Norman. That breaking
news out of Norman, Oklahoma...]."

Few newspeople seem to say "from" anywhere, if they can say "out of."
 That's been true for many years.


JL


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > CNN reports "shots fired at the University of Oklahoma out of Norman,
> > Oklahoma
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> Hmmm...If you read, "CNN reports, out of Norman, Oklahoma, shots fired at
> the University of Oklahoma," would you have said anything? Is there a
> difference?
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