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It's different FROM

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FlamedToACrisp · 30/11/2019 20:28

Not different TO or (shudder) different THAN.

If two things are different, they differ FROM each other.

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Fifthtimelucky · 01/12/2019 19:03

I agree, but I think in the US 'different than' is the norm.

Dreamersandwishers · 01/12/2019 19:27

With you @Flame, just like it is ‘she is sitting’ not ‘she is sat’. But language evolved, apparently...

olivertwistwantsmore · 20/12/2019 13:33

www.lexico.com/definition/different

Language is constantly evolving!

'Different than' is standard in the USA.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 20/12/2019 13:42

I am very pedantic but can't get worked up about different to. Jane Austen used it, after all...

TheCanterburyWhales · 20/12/2019 15:31

All perfectly correct, depending on which variety of English you use.

We tend to still tut quietly at sentences beginning with "But" though. Maybe language will evolve for that as well.

"He was sat" is a different example, as it's simply incorrect grammar.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/04/2020 13:34

I am surprised "different than" is the American norm: Robert Heinlein was exceedingly rude about that construction in To Sail Beyond The Sunset, 1987. He called it a barbarism, as far as I remember.

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