"I" befor e"E" except after "C" is bullshit!

[yorgatron]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090620/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_spelling_shake_up;_ylt=AhvksQUuvKKoQTVFdrASDOkDW7oF

screw you,spelling & grammar nazis! :grr:

[mix]

1. you're weird

:)

[konnichi wa]

2. What a weird society.

Thanks for weighing in on this.
:D
:rofl:

[DrDan]

6. isn't it "wieghing in"?????

[omega minimo]

21. Neigh

[Dark]

16. ...

"

[JDPriestly]

3. Love thy DU neighbors as thyselves.

Rein in your know-it-all impulses.

[imdjh]

4. Well, they left off the end.... "or when sounded as A as in neighbor and weigh"

"sufficient" is not an exception because the rule doesn't apply to the case of both vowels being pronounced, in 'sufficient' they technically are.

[Hannah Bell]

8. yup; & i used to have trouble with "weird" until i realized it was just a weird exception.

it's a great rule.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. It's actually not an exception

It's just not pronounced wayrd (with a long a) like it was centuries ago. The same is true of for AYN (foreign).

I learned that in my college English class. Thank you, Professor Darcy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. What about 'weir'?

Was that pronounced 'wayr'?

[Fearless]

5. I before E except after C and when it sounds like A as in neighbor and weigh.

[annabanana]

12. and height.

many many exceptions. .

[Orangepeel]

19. I learned "or before g as in neighbor and neigh"

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

7. The full rule:

i before e, except after c
or when sounded like "ay"
as in neighbor and weigh
drop this rule when -c sounds as -sh.

Like the rule for leap year, which is more complicated than just every year divisible by four is a leap year.

[Streen]

9. As an English major

I agree with this. In learning languages, we're always told that there are some things we "just have to memorize," because they're outside the rule or norm. And if the rule ends up being such, where it's something you just have to memorize rather than fitting any pattern, then the rule has to change. Right?

Still, no matter what, I'm sure the British will yell at us for our horrible spelling.

[Fearless]

10. Well we can yell back about terrible food.

:evilgrin:

And welcome to DU!

[patrice]

11. If everyone read more widely and wrote more carefully for more diverse audiences, the exceptions

wouldn't be so much of a problem, but I'm willing to yield on this and on some other spelling rules as long as there is something like the OED keeping track of the evolution of our language and, hence, our semantics, and in exchange for more careful and precise attention to grammar, the parts of speech and their functions, and syntax.

[eomer]

14. Neither weird species of leisure seized either financier. n/t

[tiny elvis]

17. excellent

[Wilms]

15. Too bad. That was an extremely useful rule.

It taught me to question things.

[dipsydoodle]

18. Next up

ending sentences with prepositions.

[omega minimo]

20. Rein in that temper!!

[ColbertWatcher]

22. ...

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. That's one of the things I like about "Science"

Exceptions Rule!

[AntiFascist]

24. K&R!

[Deja Q]

25. The Easter bunny did it with Octomom in the basement... with something pink...

[yorgatron]

26. look,all I'm saying is that our language is continually evolving,

so all you people that say I can only spell or write things according to your "rules" can eat me.:hide:

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. It's meant for the sound 'ee'

as in:

receipt
ceiling
field
siege