Re: [Ltru] Edith Whitehead's proposed editorial changes to 4646bis i-d

[John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>]

Randy Presuhn scripsit:

> Harper's English Grammar only allows "different from".
> But we all know about dueling authorities on English.  :-)

That's why I said "evidence-based".  To add a little more evidence from
Yahoo (Google's hit-count algorithm is known to be unreliable for large
numbers), "diffent from" gets 279 Mhits, "different than" gets 100 Mhits,
and "different to" gets 49 Mhits.  This is of course distorted by the
historical and continuing dominance of the U.S. on the Web.

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