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What really puzzles me is why so many Americans say & write " then
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when they mean " than " Of course, Americans speak their
dialect of English just as we Aussies use localised words which
baffle
visitors.
Alan

My generation had effect/affect, between/among, capital/capitol,
accept/except, there/their, desert/dessert, principal/principle,
weather/whether, then/than, advice/advise, decent/descent, ar_C_tic,
feb_R_uary, nu_CL_ear beaten into our little heads. I can guess only
that the low-performers who became teachers have tried to remove
everything that frustrated them.

I try to (not "and") be careful in print.

Are "Strine" and "Digger" different?

jsw