[adorno]

What about...

“different from” and “different than”?

What about those and the usage?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

One of our mechanics at the family coal mine was from a small hamlet in north Missouri and had several interesting language habits.

My favorite was “what I did” as a sort of verbal exclamation point. “What I did” could become “what I would,” or “what I will.”

“I got all the oil changed in that dozer; what I did.”