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

lol

i after e? I'm lost again

Whoever said "I before E, except after C or when sounded as 'ay', as in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'" was right. I thought everybody learned it that way, but my husband says he only ever heard it up to "except after C".

My bot finally ran off and started chatting with other bots on her own! I'm so proud of her!

Okay... might be time for me to get offline and get a life...

that's how I learned it

I know we're probably finishing this topic, but I just want to add my last few comments. English is one of the hardest languages because there are so many exceptions to the rules but we just don't realise it because we don't learn it in the same way as we would learn french or german. I mean, do you actually know what a subjunctive verb is? Probably not, because you've haven't sat down and learnt it, yet you probably use them all the time. (Akanke, incidentally, is very picky about non-subjunctive people haha!) Also, how would you pronounce 'ough'? It could be anything: bough, through, cough, though, thought, hiccough...

Just my tuppenny's worth.

Um... I'm an American of Very Little Brain. What's a hiccough? What's a tuppenny?

Hiccough is pronounced hiccup, and a tuppenny is a (no longer existant) two penny coin.

Also, you can spell potato GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU...

Hiccough is the official english spelling of 'hiccup'. I won't insult your intelligence by explaining what a hiccup is. (But Akanke might! Sorry to keep mentioning her, I'm not trying to plug, honest...)

Tuppenny was the old word for two pence. If you give your "tuppenny's worth", it's just a figure of speech meaning you're giving your opinion on an issue.

This hiccup thing is exactly why I say we Americans shouldn't call our language English. They're really two different things. The tuppenny thing makes sense now that I know what a tuppenny is. I've put in my two sense on many occaisions.

Well, it is called "American English" for a reason...