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Default Re: which of these sounds better?

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Originally Posted by adisco View Post
... if John from the transport centre.... sounds better, John of the ...is not necessarily wrong is it?
Almost. One could think up a mock-heroic context (on the analogy of the knights of the Round Table) but I think a transport centre is necessarily so prosaic that you'd have to use from.

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