different to and from

[Loren A. Billings]

I know that Alina is a fine linguist, and I mean no disrespect, but I wanted
to ask the following. Do these statistics about _different to_ include
co-occurrences where _to_ and _different_ do not form a constituent (as in
_They may be the same to you, but they're different to me_)? --Loren

On 12/13/07 2:22 AM, "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU> wrote:

> Here is an interesting chart: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/
> fxdiffer.html
> 
>     The Collins Cobuild Bank of English shows choice of preposition
> after "different" to be distributed as follows:
> 
> "from"  "to"    "than"
> -----   ----    ------
> 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

-- 

Loren A. Billings, Ph.D.
Associate professor of linguistics
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Chi Nan University
Puli, Nantou County 545 Taiwan

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