>>>And of course, as I think Tamar pointed out some months ago, everyone your side of the Atlantic seems to say "different than" rather than "different from".
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>>Not everyone. Some of us know "different from" is correct.
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>This is one of those that I always have trouble with. I know that one is considered correct and the other isn't, but have no idea which is which.
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>I also know that here in the US, we never say "different to," but they do in some of the other English-speaking countries.
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Knowing that people in other English-speaking countries sometimes say "different to" is my memory trick for remembering "different from" is corrct and "different than" isn't, since from and to are similar words.