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- From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: I before E rule
- Message-ID: <casseres-161192094257@missmolly.apple.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:41:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.214004.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> <1992Nov10.181203.24034@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
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- In article <1992Nov10.181203.24034@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, meron@ivory.bgu.ac.il
- (meron alon) wrote:
- >
- > I before E
- > except after C
- > or when sounds like an A
- > as in neighbor or weigh
- >
- >
- >
- > There are some more exceptions
- > Could someone rime them into this little rule ?
-
- I posted this before, but maybe some folks missed it. The additional rule
- that I know does not rhyme; it just asserts that all the common exceptions
- to the rhymed rule are found in the memorable sentence "Neither financier
- seized either form of weird leisure."
-
- --
-
- David Casseres
- Exclaimer: Wow!
-