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In that episode that we just heard, that you heard a bit of, they were trying to prove whether or not methane gas can blow the cover of a manhole. They and their team have looked at everything, from whether astronauts really landed on the moon, to whether you can actually knock someone's socks off. They get lots of ingenuity, duct tape, and the ever-present, occasional explosion. They are the 'MythBusters.' If you watch the Discovery Channel, you know those two voices, the two guys who investigate, well, almost any myth you can think of. Real-world sewer explosion best-case scenario, sparking in three, two, one.įLATOW: There they are.

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However, will the full scale equivalent, 100 cubic feet of methane, prove just as effective?

UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: Small scale proved that the perfect stoichiometric ratio sent manholes flying. JAMIE HYNEMAN: That sewer is getting pretty full of methane. It hurts my eyes.Īlso common (and annoying) on the Internet: 'amount of' when 'number of' should be used, eg 'the amount of Web pages that incorrectly use 'amount of''.UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: It's that familiar 'MythBusters' waiting game. Sometimes I get the impression it's more common than what I perceive as the 'correct' form. 'Different to' occurs all the time on the Internet. If you have access to the FROWN and BROWN corpora you should check this, for this is a really good example of more subtle national varities. I suspect that it may have come from a phrase such as 'different, compared to.', but this was shortened to the version that I'm familiar with. Not 'different than' at all, unless young people influenced by the US media.įor dialectical differences, you should be abel to use Mark Davies' excellent BYU version of the BNC here: Īs a native English speaker of more than six decades, I was taught that 'different to' was correct. In Australia we use 'different from' mostly, but you'll also hear 'different to' quite often. She looked different than (what) I’d expected. You look different than before.īefore a clause you can also use 'different from' (and 'different than' in NAmE): She looked different from what I’d expected. In NAmE people also say 'different than': Your trains are different than ours. This visit is very different from / to last time. 'Different to' is also used in BrE: Paul’s very different from / to his brother. 'Different from' is the most common structure in both BrE and NAmE. It's from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: I've wondered if the use of 'than' with this expression isn't a kind of transferral from expressions with adjectives in the comparative, where the use of 'than' is appropriate, for example: 'nicer than', 'bigger than' etc.ĭifferent to is the only correct way to say it in British English. When we learn English, we learn that the 'correct expression' is 'different from', which incidentally would also be the direct translation of the equivalent expression in Norwegian ('forskjellig FRA').

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This fits with the Anglophilia of Southern English, as well as the fact that I think the Mythbusters narrator is Southern, based on some non-standard syntax and pronunciations he uses once in a while.Īs a non-native English speaker, I have always found the use of 'different than' odd (I've never actually heard 'different to', I guess 'mythbusters' is one of the few tv shows I don't follow :P). I can't think of a good way to check frequencies within a given dialect on google, but I feel like different to may be more Southern. From those google searches I also noticed that different to is apparently common in UK English, but rare in US English.

So apparently I'm not crazy in my ranking of different from > different than > different to. I think in pretty much all cases I would say that one thing is 'different from' another, though I might could use 'different than' as well. One of these I noticed the other day was 'different to' something. By idiosyncratic I really just mean different from what I perceive as the standard and common way of saying things I could be wrong. I've noticed that the narrator of the Discovery show 'Mythbusters' uses quite a few idiosyncratic phrases.