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Dictionary of problem words and expressions. Harry Shaw. 1975.
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Different Than You — Single by The Exies from the album A Modern Way of Living with the Truth Recorded 2006 … Wikipedia
different from / different than — Different from is the standard usage when comparing two things: Suzie s sweater is different from Mary s. Don t say, Different than something else … Confused words
different from / different than — Different from is the standard usage when comparing two things: Suzie s sweater is different from Mary s. Don t say, Different than something else … Confused words
different from, different than, different to — The first two of these expressions are widely used, but different from is preferred by careful, educated writers and speakers: This specimen is different from (not than) that. Unfortunately, but correctly, different from often leads to extra… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
Nice is Different Than Good — Desperate Housewives episode Danny Bolen ( … Wikipedia
different — 1. Fowler wrote in 1926 that insistence ‘that different can only be followed by from and not by to is a superstition’. It is in fact a 20c superstition that refuses to go away, despite copious evidence for the use of to and than dating back to… … Modern English usage
than — [than] conj. [ME than, thene, thonne < OE thenne, thanne, thonne, orig., then: for IE base see THAT] 1. introducing the second element in a comparison, following an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree: if the first element is a… … English World dictionary
different — ► ADJECTIVE 1) not the same as another or each other. 2) distinct; separate. 3) informal novel and unusual. DERIVATIVES differently adverb differentness noun. USAGE There is little difference in sense between di … English terms dictionary
Different — Dif fer*ent, a. [L. differens, entis, p. pr. of differre: cf. F. diff[ e]rent.] 1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. Five different churches. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
different — adj. 1) basically, entirely, radically different 2) different from, than (AE), to (BE) USAGE NOTE: Some purists consider only different from to be correct. Note that when a clause follows, than becomes a conjunction, but from and to remain… … Combinatory dictionary
