> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com] > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:44 > To: John Klein > Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Literary Disappointments (was: The LKH thing) > > > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, John Klein wrote: > > #points and question marks in the same sentence, the phrase > "different to", > > No argument with most of what he said, but "different to" is normal > British usage where USAians say "different from" or "different than". > > -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and > Philological Busybody > a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel > > When *will* those British learn to speak proper American ? W