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Why argue with a good friend when you're both correct? Please read carefully the USAGE NOTE from the link for the entry for the word than (yes, click on it!), taken from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition). I'm curious. -Was there any money riding on this? |
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| Yes, both are correct. The first is the traditionally correct answer, and the other is so very common it cannot be considered wrong. |
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Yes. So very common that even the likes of Shakespeare, Johnson, Swift, Scott, and Faulkner used it. From the USAGE NOTE mentioned above: John is taller than me. Though this usage is still widely regarded as incorrect, it is predominant in speech and has reputable literary precedent, appearing in the writing of such respected authors as Shakespeare, Johnson, Swift, Scott, and Faulkner. It is also consistent with the fact that than is clearly treated as a preposition in the than whom construction, as in a poet than whom (not than who) no one has a dearer place in the hearts of his countrymen. |
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| Thanks a lot Monticello and Konungursvia. I really appreciate it. |
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| If "poets and liars" used it, it's good enough for little old me. |
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Last edited by Monticello; 06-Apr-2009 at 02:12. |
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| Both are correct |
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