http://www.talktotheclouds.com/2009/06/25/i-before-e-except-in-the-uk/ Teaching, speaking, reading, pondering English Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.talktotheclouds.com/2009/06/25/i-before-e-except-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-4082 Clarissa Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:51:28 +0000 http://www.talktotheclouds.com/?p=239#comment-4082 Yeah, that helps some...I just added a link to World Wide Words' comment on the issue: http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/cobf.htm#N1 Yeah, that helps some…I just added a link to World Wide Words’ comment on the issue: http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/cobf.htm#N1

]]> http://www.talktotheclouds.com/2009/06/25/i-before-e-except-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-4036 Tora Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:55:10 +0000 http://www.talktotheclouds.com/?p=239#comment-4036 I was originally taught "i before e except after c", and found it nearly useless. Later, someone told me that the full rule was "i before e except after c, or when sounded as 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'." That second part makes it a LOT more useful. It still has exceptions, like "weird" and "caffeine", and so on, but it has far fewer of them! I was originally taught “i before e except after c”, and found it nearly useless. Later, someone told me that the full rule was “i before e except after c, or when sounded as ‘a’ as in ‘neighbor’ and ‘weigh’.” That second part makes it a LOT more useful. It still has exceptions, like “weird” and “caffeine”, and so on, but it has far fewer of them!

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