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

[David G. Miller]

Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 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.  
>
>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...
>
No exceptions?  Go explain that to some scientists.

Cheers,
Dave

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