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Mind your language

Similar to (as opposed to like, as with, such as)

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

I’m often annoyed by like being misused in different ways. (In place of as, for example: ‘Like I expected, he was late.’) But I’m now surprised by baffling uses of similar to. The Sun provided three examples in discussing the little internet craze for listening to an audio clip that either says ‘Laurel’ or ‘Yanny’.

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