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Vive la difference: What's so bad about ‘different than'? «In the forthcoming third edition of “Garner's Modern American Usage,” Bryan Garner admits that “different than is sometimes idiomatic and even useful.” But on his new Language-Change Index, which puts disputed usages on a 5-point scale from “Rejected” to “Fully Accepted,” he ranks different than smack in the middle, in the category called “Widespread but...." »