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- From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: I before E rule
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 04:38:12 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <1992Nov8.214004.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- From article <1992Nov8.214004.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, by ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert):
- > In article <1df1jcINNpr6@uwm.edu>, jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
- >> From article <1992Nov6.140630.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, by ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert):
- >>
- >>> The rule as I learned it 55 or so years ago was `I before E when the sound is
- >>> ee.'
- >>
- >> Weird!
- >
- > 2. To me `weird' doesn't have a `ee' sound. It has thwe same vowel sound as
- > `weir' which is different from that in `believe'.
-
- Perhaps that's just because you 'Strines talk "funny"? ;-) ;-)
-
- Weird does have the "ee" sound, to my ears at least. In fact, I've never
- heard it pronounced otherwise.
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