"out of" = 'in'

[Charles C Doyle]

In the introduction of pugilists who are about to compete in "Ultimate Fighting" bouts (we all watch those, don't we?) a fuller locution is customarily employed, which has struck me as especially odd.  For example, "Fighting out of Athens, Georgia: Forrest Griffin."

--Charlie
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At 1/22/2014 05:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>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
>
>

> >
> > > CNN reports "shots fired at the University of Oklahoma out of Norman,
> > > Oklahoma
> > >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > DanG

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