OT: Then and than [WAS: chroot to oldlinux...]
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Sep 26 23:33:15 UTC 2006
Tim:
>> Maybe you should have learnt it like we did, instead: I *before* E,
>> except after C.
Bob Goodwin:
> Or when sounded like "A" as in neighbor and neigh.
I can't really recall. Somewhere I have a small rule book about this,
but heck knows where it is. Mum's an English teacher, but I wouldn't
ask her for advice about it, she's a POM.
> Or is that not true in AustralEnglish?
It's called Orstrayan, thank you very much... ;-)
(No, not really. For the uninitiated, that's a joke - based on a common
appalling pronunciation of the word "Australian," in Australia.)
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