Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Aug 2009 16:32 UTC
Since I think we haven't been having enough fun lately on OSNews, I decided it's time we do something fun for a change. We all have our little pet annoyances when it comes to other people's comments. Fixed expressions or comment styles that annoy the living daylights out of you. Here are mine.
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As for "than" vs. "then" -- I highly doubt you do actually distinguish them in all contexts, you just think you do (people tend to assume they pronounce things certain ways because of the spelling or the phonology of the word, ignoring the fact that what actually comes out is sometimes quite different -- for example, the 'p' in "spit" and the 'b' in "bit" are pronounced exactly the same in American English and some dialects of British English and elsewhere, yet I imagine that most people would argue that point with me quite strongly -- until I pulled out sound analysis software which clearly shows that they are the same (and if you remove the 's' from the beginning of the recording, you can clearly *hear* it too)).
No. Actually what you said is that using sound analysis you would show that they are pronounced the same. The links I sent you prove that they are not.
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Note the difference in the strong pronounciation phonetics between these two entries in a UK dictionary:
THAN: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=82226&dict=CALD
THEN: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=82339&dict=CALD
You may highly doubt it all you wish :-)