> > What's the difference between "then" and "than"? This has been bugging me for quite some time, and seeing as how most of you seem to be grammatical experts of one degree or another, would anyone mind filling me in?
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> > M"grammatically ignorant, as you can probably tell from the fact that I'm not putting a period at the end of this sentence"el
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> I'm not sure but I think
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> Then=time This happened, THEN that did
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> Than=diffrence This is diffrent than that
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> I may be wrong though

You're almost right. The one problem is that things are never different *than.* The correct preposition is "from" - as in, "This is different from that."

Had you picked another term, say, taller, you'd be fine. "This is taller than that."