Message Forum: Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages

Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages

Posted By: unipeg, on host 63.252.119.118
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000, at 15:23:01
In Reply To: Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages posted by Tranio on Thursday, May 11, 2000, at 12:24:16:

> What may help you is the entire rule: 'i' before 'e' except after 'c', or when sounded like 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'.

except in words like 'weird'... but THAT'S self-referential, so it's not THAT hard

uni"me and my brother had an entire list of self-referential words once..."peg