Bill Bryson Quote

Different. Often used unnecessarily. ‘He plays milkmaid to more than 50 different species of poisonous snake’ (Observer); ‘The phenomenally successful Rubik Cube, which has 43,252,002,274,489,856,000 different permutations but only one solution’ (Sunday Times); ‘[He] published at least five different books on grammar’ (Simon, Paradigms Lost). Frequently, as in each of these examples, it can be deleted without loss.

Bill Bryson

Different. Often used unnecessarily. ‘He plays milkmaid to more than 50 different species of poisonous snake’ (Observer); ‘The phenomenally successful Rubik Cube, which has 43,252,002,274,489,856,000 different permutations but only one solution’ (Sunday Times); ‘[He] published at least five different books on grammar’ (Simon, Paradigms Lost). Frequently, as in each of these examples, it can be deleted without loss.

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