different to and from

[Martin Votruba]

> Do these statistics about _different to_ include
> co-occurrences where _to_ and _different_ do not form a constituent

Perhaps not, Loren, but the difference between British and American 
English is still striking, meaning the instances that you quote (a 
valid caveat) cannot be more than 3.9% if all of the British 
occurrences were only of that type, which is not likely -- it is 
quite improbable that saying _but they're different to me_ would be 
dramatically more common in the US than in the UK.


Martin

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu

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