Different from/than/to?

Language Log 2025-10-06

Summary:

Several commenters on yesterday's post "'Between you and I'", starting with Martin Schwartz, go back and forth (or round and round?) about different from vs. different than vs. different to. So I can't resist quoting the entry for different from, different than, different to from Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage: We have about 80 […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=71479&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=different-from-than-to

From feeds:

Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

peeving

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/06/2025, 21:01

Date published:

10/06/2025, 19:22