Rolf,
And what's even more weird, there is a 'weir' (pronounced just as
'weird', but without the 'd'), a structure over which water flows. All
of this make good fodder for humorists…
Cheers,
Tom
Thomas Adams wrote:
And: Eight!!! (8)
Rolf Turner wrote:
On 2/07/2008, at 10:15 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Ow ow ow. I can't stand it any longer! "Weird" is one of those weird
exceptions in English to the "i before e except after c" rule and is
spelled
"W-E-I-R-D" .
In case you're interested, the other exceptions are seize, inveigle ,
either, leisure, neither.
What about weigh and neighbour? :-)
(If you're invoking the codicil ``or when sounded "aye" as in
neighbour or weigh'', then shouldn't inveigle not be considered
an exception either?) (Or am I mispronouncing ``inveigle''?)
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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