In today's Vancouver 24 hours, the article "Get noticed online" is a gem. If more than one person looks at this article (when proofreading, for example), chances are someone will notice that then should be than.
A well-written resume includes hyphens where there are supposed to be hyphens. To understand why both this article is not well written and this is not a well-written article are both correctly written, click here.
Grab an employer's attention (note the apostrophe) immediately before a paper shredder grabs the edge of your resume.
Well, it appears that the first then for than in this poorly written article wasn't a typo; this writer believes that then is the correct word to use in this context. All professional writers should know that using spell check at all times doesn't guarantee catching every spelling mistake. Proofreading has the potential to catch more errors than (not then) spell check.
Proper proofreading would have made the writer aware that the punctuation mark after "cell phone numbers" should be a comma instead of a period.[Added August 13, 2009: the online article still contains the errors.]
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