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@יואב זאגט, אבער איך וואלט אפשר געטוישט "caused by" צו "attributable to."
tag]Josh[/tag], do you want to know the difference for your personal knowledge or because you plan to use it in a college essay? I'm asking because the phrase *due to* has traditionally been a source of
argument among grammarians, with some pedantic ones insisting that the idiom isn't correct English at all. Therefore, if your prof. happens to be one of these fussy ones, you may want to avoid using the phrase altogether.
Here's the entry from the OED:
d. due to, as prepositional phr. = owing to at owing adj. 3.
Described as ‘erroneous’ by W. A. Craigie in the Dict. of Amer. Eng., and said by H. W. Fowler in Mod. Eng. Usage (1926) to be ‘often used by the illiterate as though it had passed, like owing to, into a mere compound preposition’, this use is now widely current though still firmly rejected by many grammarians.
1897 S. T. Clover Paul Travers' Adv. 190 [The Koturah] was taxed to her capacity, due to the fact that..she was advertised to go first to Adelaide.
1926 in Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 123/2 The old trade union movement is a dead horse, largely due to the incompetency of the leaders.
1953 Sat. Evening Post 5 Dec. 173 So far, due to engineering controls, more precise than any known to industry, this has never happened.
1955 Times 25 July, Largely due to the defence efforts of the Western Powers, Europe was in a state of stalemate.
1957 Queen Elizabeth II in Times 15 Oct. 10/6 Due to inability to market their grain, prairie farmers have for some time been faced with a serious shortage of funds to meet their immediate needs.
