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By JAMES S. KILPATRICK
Universal Press Syndicate
The Court of Peeves, Irks and Crotchets opens its April assizes with the plea of many plaintiffs for a definitive order on “different from” and “different than.” The court, after prolonged reflection, ducks.
Wilson Follett discussed the question in his “Modern American Usage.” He too was unable to offer any positive guidance, but he said something of profound wisdom: “It is often better to find a way around a linguistic thicket than to bull one’s way through it.”
The general guideline — not a rule, just a guideline — is to use “different than” with a following clause. Thus, “Let me know if your telephone number is different than it was a year ago.” “Life is a foster home proved no different than life
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