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&lt;font color=red&gt;DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here.  Post them in our &lt;a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3614.32638)</generator><item><title>Re: die from</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DieFrom/dcrhh/post.htm#260602</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:49:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:260602</guid><dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DieFrom/dcrhh/post.htm#260602</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-260602.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Marius Hancu wrote:    practically the same: --------- die  1  : to pass from physical life : suffer total and irreversible loss of the bodily attributes and functions that constitute life :  EXPIRE ,  PERISH  &amp;lt; died in a fire&amp;gt; &amp;lt;may yet die at his brother's hand&amp;gt; &amp;lt; dying of old age&amp;gt; &amp;lt;likely to die from lack of care&amp;gt; M-W unabridged ------- However, you would say  dying of old age and not  dying from old age Also in terms of hits at Yahoo: 353,000 for "died of pneumonia" which seems more popular 48,400 for "died from&lt;/FONT</description></item><item><title>Re: die from</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DieFrom/dcrhh/post.htm#260575</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:49:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:260575</guid><dc:creator>Marius Hancu</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DieFrom/dcrhh/post.htm#260575</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-260575.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>practically the same: 
 
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 die 
 
 1  : to pass from physical life : suffer total and irreversible loss of the bodily attributes and functions that constitute life :  EXPIRE ,  PERISH   &amp;lt; died in a fire&amp;gt; &amp;lt;may yet die at his brother's hand&amp;gt; &amp;lt; dying of old age&amp;gt; &amp;lt;likely to die from lack of care&amp;gt; 
 
M-W unabridged 
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However, you would say 
 dying of old age 
and not 
 dying from old age 
 
Also in terms of hits at Yahoo: 
353,000 for "died of pneumonia" which seems more popular 
48,400 for "died from pneumonia"</description></item><item><title>die from</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DieFrom/dcrhh/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:49:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:260515</guid><dc:creator>Chariot</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DieFrom/dcrhh/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-260515.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>What is the difference between 'die of' and 'die from'? Thanks a lot.</description></item></channel></rss>