Decades ago, a good friend who was a Royal Lao Air Force officer asked
me if I would assist his daughter with English in preparation for her
secondary school admissions examination. I realized early on that I was
heading for failure while we were on formation of plurals ... dog/dogs,
cat/cats, person/people, goose/geese, moose/moose, sheep/sheep, ... The
Lao language has no plurals so we were starting from scratch. It was at
least an order of magnitude harder than O Chem and we hadn't even gotten
to "i before e ... or not, you choose."
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 5/22/2018 7:15 AM, Tony Estep wrote:
====================
From a story in the Washington Post:
"...Merriam-Webster once facetiously tried to account for all exceptions
<https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/i-before-e-except-after-c> with
the following jingle:
I before e, except after c
Or when sounded as 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'
Unless the 'c' is part of a 'sh' sound as in 'glacier'
Or it appears in comparatives and superlatives like 'fancier'
And also except when the vowels are sounded as 'e' as in 'seize'
Or 'i' as in 'height'
Or also in '-ing' inflections ending in '-e' as in 'cueing'
Or in compound words as in 'albeit'
Or occasionally in technical words with strong etymological links to their
parent languages as in 'cuneiform'
Or in other numerous and random exceptions such as 'science', 'forfeit',
and 'weird'."
Tony KT0NY
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