Post by Fenris on Aug 30, 2007 16:13:22 GMT -5
I before E except after C:
Works for the majority of words, such as:
# achieve, believe, bier, brief, hygiene, grief, thief, friend, grieve, chief, fiend, patience, pierce, priest
# ceiling, conceive, deceive, perceive, receipt, receive, deceit, conceit
But then things get complicated: it doesn't work with words pronounced "ay" as in neighbour, freight, beige, sleigh, weight, vein, and weigh
and there are many exceptions to the rule: either, neither, feint, foreign, forfeit, height, leisure, weird, seize, and seizure.
Still, the rule is relatively simple and worth remembering.
beautiful - in primary school I was taught a little song to remember this.
Mrs B, Mrs E
Mrs A U T
Mrs I, Mrs F U L.
It helps when you know the little tune it has, but I added this in anyway.
assassin - an assassin has 'two asses' to fit 'in' the door.
This was the PG13 version I made up to help someone. It followed the dirty version, which no doubt they remember. Basically, assasssin is, 'ass' 'ass' and 'in'
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Works for the majority of words, such as:
# achieve, believe, bier, brief, hygiene, grief, thief, friend, grieve, chief, fiend, patience, pierce, priest
# ceiling, conceive, deceive, perceive, receipt, receive, deceit, conceit
But then things get complicated: it doesn't work with words pronounced "ay" as in neighbour, freight, beige, sleigh, weight, vein, and weigh
and there are many exceptions to the rule: either, neither, feint, foreign, forfeit, height, leisure, weird, seize, and seizure.
Still, the rule is relatively simple and worth remembering.
beautiful - in primary school I was taught a little song to remember this.
Mrs B, Mrs E
Mrs A U T
Mrs I, Mrs F U L.
It helps when you know the little tune it has, but I added this in anyway.
assassin - an assassin has 'two asses' to fit 'in' the door.
This was the PG13 version I made up to help someone. It followed the dirty version, which no doubt they remember. Basically, assasssin is, 'ass' 'ass' and 'in'
More To Come
