Here in Maine, I often come across the inversion of 'THEN' and 'THAN'. It frustrated me more THAN I could ever convey, but THEN, I am easily annoyed. lol
More likely that is the symptom of a case of Homonym Disease -- you must know people who use the wrong spelling no matter what sound-alike they intended. Lately folks have been abusing rein/reign all over the place, not to mention faze/phase and others too numerous to list.
That's sometimes a homonym error, but it's also a not-infrequent typo. Like the than/that inversion it's one I make myself and have seen in a large number of published books as well.
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2009-05-11 18:17 (UTC)Here in Maine, I often come across the inversion of 'THEN' and 'THAN'. It frustrated me more THAN I could ever convey, but THEN, I am easily annoyed. lol
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2009-05-11 18:29 (UTC)no subject
2009-05-11 19:06 (UTC)I find them really annoying when I do them...