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Originally Posted by CDurham
Different than.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bob jenkins
Grammar is the key difference.
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"From" is most certainly correct, while "than" is not uncommon in the "Colonies".
The Collins Cobuild Bank of English shows choice of preposition after "different" to be distributed (%) as follows:
"from" "to" "than"
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U.K. writing 87.6 10.8 1.5
U.K. speech 68.8 27.3 3.9
U.S. writing 92.7 0.3 7.0
U.S. speech 69.3 0.6 30.1