Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Then or than?

Then or than?
Although it's quite commonfor these two to be confused, it's one of those that is simple to resolve.'Then' has to do with thepassage of time, or with a sequence of events.'Than' is a comparativeconjunction, allowing one thing to be compared with another.
So:
'Sarah went to see hermother, then travelled the short distance to see her brother, and then she wentto the supermarket and met the man of her dreams over the cheese counter.'
'Sarah has more than onesister; in fact, she has three.'
'If you don't stop that,Bernard, then I'll slap your face.' (though, in fact, the 'then' in thissentence is redundant – try it without and you'll see there's no loss ofmeaning. But it illustrates the point, I think.)
'I'd rather you kissed methan slapped my face.'
Pic: Suspension bridge over the Humber Estuary.