thanNOTthen.net
Oh for God’s Sake, it’s thanNOTthen.
My how it bugs me when someone doesn’t seem to know the difference between the words THAN and THEN.
To me it’s obvious. I can’t conceive HOW to mix them up. They are as different as day and night. My guess is that it’s the American accent. The pronunciation of “than” is not distinct enough to “then”, and a whole generation of kids have grown up thinking they’re interchangable. At my school I wouldn’t have passed English had I confused the two.
Of course, dedicating a website to a pet peeve might seem extreme. The final straw, for me, came when I read this unholy of unholies in The Economist, which hitherto had been my refuge for proper English usage. I fired off a letter to the editor threatening to cancel my subscription, but I guess that’s the state of the world we now live in. And yes, I know I’m over-reacting.
The very language we use is rotting away.
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