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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus
Does anyone have a different opinion?
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"Different from" and "different to" sound foreign to me. I understand them, but they are definitely a linguistic out-marker to me.
I routinely hear both now that I live in the UK. Before I came here, "different to/from" wasn't something I heard said.
If you want, I can try and formalize some of the grammatical oddities in the speech here (I'm talking mainstream British English, not Geordie) and post it in another thread.