Tuesday, January 20, 2009

what a confusing langauge...http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelie.html

Rule
Write I before EExcept after COr when it sounds like an AAs in "neighbor" and "weigh"

i before e: relief, believe, niece, chief, sieve, frieze, field, yield
e before i: receive, deceive, ceiling, conceit, vein, sleigh, freight, eight


Exceptions
seize, either, weird, height, foreign, leisure, conscience, counterfeit, forfeit, leisure, neither, science, species, sufficient

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelie.html

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