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  2. From: ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: I before E rule
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov8.214004.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
  6. Date: 8 Nov 92 10:40:04 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov6.140630.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> <1df1jcINNpr6@uwm.edu>
  8. Sender: news@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au
  9. Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
  10. Lines: 21
  11.  
  12. In article <1df1jcINNpr6@uwm.edu>, jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
  13. > From article <1992Nov6.140630.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, by ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert):
  14. > 
  15. >> The rule as I learned it 55 or so years ago was `I before E when the sound is
  16. >> ee.'
  17. > 
  18. >   Weird!
  19. > 
  20. > -- 
  21. s#
  22.  
  23. 1. After all these years I left out the qualifying ~except after C' (which
  24. handles `receive'.
  25.  
  26. 2. To me `weird' doesn't have a `ee' sound. It has thwe same vowel sound as
  27. `weir' which is different from that in `believe'.
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  29. John A Lambert
  30. Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing
  31. The University of Newcastle NSW 2308 Australia
  32. ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au
  33.