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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9358898" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Well, if we're going to grammar police it, &quot;different than,&quot; &quot;different from,&quot; and &quot;different to&quot; are all acceptable. &quot;Different to&quot; is seldom used in North America and sounds/reads wrong to me, though I understand it as a British variation (probably also Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.).So really, the title just has a typo, with &quot;then&quot; instead of &quot;than.&quot; However, I think most North American English speakers would use &quot;different from.&quot; Or maybe that's a Canadian thing? Do Americans prefer &quot;different than&quot;? It certainly sounds less odd to me than &quot;different to,&quot; making me think it has more regional currency.As far as the subject goes, they're all different! But so are all the various medieval (and earlier/later) versions of these creatures. There's no one medieval definition of a &quot;dragon,&quot; for example. By and large, I prefer the D&amp;D versions because I basically slept with my AD&amp;D Monster Manual.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9358898, member: 7035894"] Well, if we're going to grammar police it, "different than," "different from," and "different to" are all acceptable. "Different to" is seldom used in North America and sounds/reads wrong to me, though I understand it as a British variation (probably also Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.). So really, the title just has a typo, with "then" instead of "than." However, I think most North American English speakers would use "different from." Or maybe that's a Canadian thing? Do Americans prefer "different than"? It certainly sounds less odd to me than "different to," making me think it has more regional currency. As far as the subject goes, they're all different! But so are all the various medieval (and earlier/later) versions of these creatures. There's no one medieval definition of a "dragon," for example. By and large, I prefer the D&D versions because I basically slept with my AD&D Monster Manual. [/QUOTE]

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