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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged prepositions

1. September 24, 2012 03:00 PM

   Prepositions: the last word

   Something to not put up with?

   By Merrill Perlman

   The purpose of last week’s posting was to warn against accepting supposedly famous quotations just because they’re repeated frequently. But the biggest reaction came over the supposed quotation from Winston Churchill, all versions of which end with “up with which I will not put.” A link to Ben Zimmer’s research made it clear that there is no definitive proof when...

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2. April 17, 2012 04:27 PM

   Viva La Difference

   Comparatively speaking

   By Merrill Perlman

   Am I “different than” you? Or “different from ” you? And does it matter? “Different than is often considered inferior to different from,” Garner’s Modern American Usage says. We certainly don’t want to be inferior. It’s because the word “different” implies a contrast, while the preposition “than” is used for making a comparison (Her piece of cake is bigger than...

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