Personality

I after E except after C

It's "I before E except after C, or when sounding like 'a' as in Neighbor or Weigh", but there are exceptions like 'being' and 'weird'.

Weird beings are always the exception.

ROFL!!!

The one I always used to learn was 'I before E except after C, We live in a wEIrd socIEty!'

I learned a longer list of exceptions: Neither foreign sovereign seized forfeited counterfeit leizure. Either weird heifer. But that misses a couple.

Reminds me of having to memorize the German prepositions that take the dative case: "aus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu" -- in alphabetical order, no less.

Funny that I remember that from over 20 years ago.

I used to think that the great thing of English is that you don't have to learn any rules for spelling, because it's total anarchy. Don't tell me I was wrong!

It's not total anarchy. Every rule has exceptions, but they are very few compared to the number of words that follow the rules.

I think maybe this thread belongs in The AI Engine.

Well, I still got a lot to learn. Anyway I just spelt wierd wierd because it didn't look like weird. (Now that I mention it, it looks better as weird)

Ok then- why have we used 9 posts for 'i after e except after c'? ...
---BM---

That's the impact of a good post

*Pats lunar22 on the back* Prouuuddd....