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- From: pclink@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rick)
- Subject: Re: Fun with sed!!!! [nothing better to do on Saturday night]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.234842.27369@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au>
- Organization: Telecom Australia, TNE Computer Support Services
- References: <512@alden.UUCP> <Bt7t6C.2H0@fafnir.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:48:42 GMT
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- mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) writes:
- >So the problem is your "rule" is bogus and your teachers lied to you. The
- >real rule is:
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- >I before E except before C and in sounds of "A" like "neighbor" and "weigh",
- >this being for syllables only, not compound words, and it doesn't necessarily
- >apply to words imported from foreign languages, even English proper names may
- >deviate, and anyway there are exceptions like "either".
-
- Yeah, but... can you write a sed script to implement this?
-
- Rick.
- 8^)
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