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I think that it's definitely a lack of fundamental English mechanics being taught in schools. I am a freshman in college now, and the first "lesson" I had relating to the usage of then/than was my junior year of high school, and this was only because my teacher was getting a lot of papers from students with improper usage. I've never really had a problem confusing the two, mainly because I make it a point to prounounce them differently. In the technologically advanced world of spell-check, I hope that actual knowledge is not lost.
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