[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 14:05:02 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >The ie/ei rule is complicated, and has 8 exceptions that have been
> >brought to my attention, but I can never remember more than 7 of
> >them:
> >
> >either
> >foreign
> >forfeit
> >leisure
> >neither
> >seize
> >weird
> >
> >There's at least 1 more. Anyone?
>
> Their?
That falls under the main rule:
I before E except after "c", or when combined they make the sound of
long "a". (There's a nice little ditty for that last bit which I don't
remember.)
"Neighbor" fits the general rule. "Their" does, as well, as does
"weigh".
"Conceive" fits the part about "after 'c'".
Julia
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