This is the place where Richard Mateosian comments, sometimes nitpickingly, about questions of writing style, grammar, and vocabulary that occur to him as the words of others impinge upon his consciousness.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
More then 35 million
While watching a TV reporter interview a health insurance executive, I saw the following cross the bottom of the screen: "Wellpoint has more then 35 million . . ."
This is such a common error that I wonder whether it's just a typo. I suspect that a significant number of people intentionally use "then" rather than "than" for comparisons.
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