On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 10:31 pm, Julia Thompson wrote:
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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'".
Theism Atheism Leitmotif Heist Heifer.
Time to stop now :)
The only rule we got at school was 'after c', and then one just learned all the exceptions. Everyone has a few words they can't spell I think. One of mine is 'resteraunt'. Oops! Restaurant.
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
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