On 4-8-2009 22:44, clipka wrote:
> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay schrieb:
>> ...and while I'm at it, has anyone else noticed that "then" has begun 
>> replacing "than" at an alarming rate?  I used to see this mistake once 
>> in awhile, but lately, I see it on every forum I visit, even places 
>> where you'd only expect to see highly educated posters.  It baffles me.
>>   
> Yes, must be a sort of virus. But it seems to me that the symptoms are 
> not specifically limited to "then" vs. "than", but generally 
> transferring the spelling of one word to another that sounds virtually 
> identical.
> 
> Some even don't seem to know how to properly spell such common words as 
> "goti".

or ghoti. Though here is something quite satisfying in the goti spelling 
too.

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