OT: Then and than [WAS: chroot to oldlinux...]

[Bob Goodwin]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 09:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>   
>> I cannot for the life of me get the hang of "I" after "E", except
>> after "C", after 56 years of being native born here. Good luck with
>> this language. If it wasn't for my spell checker I'd look pretty bad. 
>>     
>
> Maybe you should have learnt it like we did, instead:  I *before* E,
> except after C.  
>   
Or when sounded like "A" as in neighbor and neigh.  Or is that not true
in AustralEnglish?

BobG
> As some examples; I believe you should receive some spelling information
> that isn't weird, and you shouldn't need to be Einstein to spell.  ;-)
>
> Yes, there's a couple of rule breakers in there.  To every rule there is
> an exception, except this one...
>
>